[jjgreen]

500 years of typographical practice has shown our species that 80 characters is about as long as a line can be before it becomes difficult to read. To see this, take a novel from your bookshelf and count the characters per line.

[ceejayoz]

Sure, but nothing says you can't shrink your text editor's window down to 80 characters wide if you like.

[solox3]

Are you talking about line wrapping? Because I don't know a single person who enjoys wrapped lines of code.