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From: Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:41:20 -0500
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Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:24:04 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> On 03/03/2025 10:05, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
>>>> Some would probably get on your case for being profligate with vertical
>>>> space... but honestly, it doesn't much matter with the kind of screen
>>>> real estate we have these days. I do agree that your style has
>>>> readability benefits.
>>> 
>>> Yes. Back in the day when I debugged with 80 column dot matrix
>>> printouts, it got messy.
>>> To day with collapsible blocks on a gui it's a lot easier
>> 
>> I still prefer statements that don't exceed 80 columns. 
>> 
>
> I keep them that way, too. It’s a bit harder to follow across longer lines.
> That’s one reason I really miss the 3290. There was an optional full-width
> dotted underscore line that could follow the cursor up and down. It made it
> easy to read across a full 160-column line. I haven’t found an editor that
> will do that.

Here are solutions for Emacs and vi:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/74pz0h/how_to_draw_a_horizontal_line_on_current_line/

The 3290 was pretty cool but monocolor and amber wasn't my favorite.

-- 
Dan Espen