[marssaxman]

I don't care what the limit is, but there has to be a limit, because otherwise you always get that one asshole who likes to zoom his single editor pane fullscreen on a 30" monitor and then type, type, type until he wraps around the far side. Codebases like that are just painful to work with, and it's a waste of monitor space when you can't stack up a row of editors side by side.

I use 80 columns, personally, just because it's familiar, but I'd be just as happy with 100 or 112 or 120 or 160 or really anything as long as there's room to fit at least two editors on screen side by side.