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by xadren 575 days ago
I largely prefer an 80 column limit. On my external monitors with no file tree open, I perhaps could utilise more columns comfortably, but that really falls apart if I need to work on my laptop's screen.

The side effect of this that I don't particularly love is having to split a function's arguments on to multiple lines. Usually if I'm at that point though, I'll probably end up having to split those arguments up event at a ~100 character column limit.

To me, splitting the arguments is the preferable of the two situations. I always want to be able to see the whole line.