Hard-wrap the README to 80 columns #12

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jakehamilton merged 2 commits from Irenes/lib:80-columns into main

2025-10-18 22:25:49 +00:00

Irenes commented

2025-10-18 22:13:59 +00:00

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The text of this is unchanged except I added a sentence saying to please keep the README wrapped to 80 columns. I am proposing this as a style rule (only for Markdown files).o

The reasoning here is that the README is the onboarding information that newcomers to the project need, and it should be readable via as many different approaches as possible.

While many people approach new codebases by browsing the web, some of us still do the old thing of cloning the repo and looking for descriptive files within it, and for those people we should try to work on the widest variety of terminals we can. 80 columns has been a lowest-common-denominator width since the 70s, so it makes a good target for this purpose.

I'm not hurt if people disagree, I just thought I'd offer this :)

The text of this is unchanged **except** I added a sentence saying to please keep the README wrapped to 80 columns. I am proposing this as a style rule (only for Markdown files).o The reasoning here is that the README is the onboarding information that newcomers to the project need, and it should be readable via as many different approaches as possible. While many people approach new codebases by browsing the web, some of us still do the old thing of cloning the repo and looking for descriptive files within it, and for those people we should try to work on the widest variety of terminals we can. 80 columns has been a lowest-common-denominator width since the 70s, so it makes a good target for this purpose. I'm not hurt if people disagree, I just thought I'd offer this :)

Irenes added 1 commit 2025-10-18 22:14:00 +00:00

Hard-wrap the README to 80 columns 7e68859996

The text of this is unchanged EXCEPT I added a sentence saying to please keep the README wrapped to 80 columns. I am proposing this as a style rule (only for Markdown files).o

The reasoning here is that the README is the onboarding information that newcomers to the project need, and it should be readable via as many different approaches as possible.

While many people approach new codebases by browsing the web, some of us still do the old thing of cloning the repo and looking for descriptive files within it, and for those people we should try to work on the widest variety of terminals we can. 80 columns has been a lowest-common-denominator width since the 70s, so it makes a good target for this purpose.

I'm not hurt if people disagree, I just thought I'd offer this :)