[noam_k]

My preference is 100 characters. I find it usually takes up half the screen, allowing split screen editing (on modern screen sizes).

But while on the subject, I can't help bringing up the QEMU coding style[0]:

> Some people like to tile their 24” screens with a 6x4 matrix of 80x24 xterms and use vi in all of them. The best way to punish them is to let them keep doing it.

[0]: https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/devel/style.html#line-wi...

[o11c]

That's a silly quote. Everybody knows it's only a vector since a tall 80x84 or whatever is always useful for keeping more of the file on the screen.

Also, for reference, a table of font sizes and number of terminals beside each other that fit on a given size screen:

            1t      2t      3t      4t      5t      6t
    6px     480     960     1440    1920    2400    2880
    7px     560     1120    1680    2240    2800    3360
    8px     640     1280    1920    2560    3200    3840
    9px     720     1440    2160    2880    3600    4320
    10px    800     1600    2400    3200    4000    4800
    12px    960     1920    2880    3840    4800    5760
    14px    1120    2240    3360    4480    5600    6720
    16px    1280    2560    3840    5120    6400    7680

On a screen with the traditional ~100 DPI, a 6px wide font is quite readable so on 1920x1080 you get exactly 4 columns of terminals (just beware window decorations trying to steal extra pixels). If the height is 13px (so it's about a 9.5pt font IF point size is measured honestly) you get about 75 lines depending on taskbar and window headers.