> After all, most tools still standardize around 80 characters
I use standard Linux tools for development, and none of the tools themselves have any column standard. Probably text-only emails are the only thing that have a "standard" of 80 columns.
> most terminals on GUI machines start up for the first time with 24 rows and 80 columns
This doesn't really mean anything. I don't think there's anybody who leaves the terminal as it is, as even on a modest 1080, that'd be one quarter of the screen area.
I use standard Linux tools for development, and none of the tools themselves have any column standard. Probably text-only emails are the only thing that have a "standard" of 80 columns.
> most terminals on GUI machines start up for the first time with 24 rows and 80 columns
This doesn't really mean anything. I don't think there's anybody who leaves the terminal as it is, as even on a modest 1080, that'd be one quarter of the screen area.