[gopher] width of a gophersite

[Nick Matavka]

As a Lynx user, I *strongly* disagree.  Besides, it's a break with
40-odd years of tradition... UNIX has been on 80x25 monitors for
bloody ever, and so have FORTRAN programmes (my favourite programming
language).  My favourite editor is a little-known one called TECO,
which doesn't respect lines (it works on a character-oriented
paradigm), but everything else I use, I try to find a command-line
version of!

I think that the only programmes that should be graphical are games
and the OS shell (in my case, the Finder).  Everything else, I just
use the Terminal.  It should open on start-up BY DEFAULT.

Now you see where I'm coming from, don't you think 80 char width is
the right thing to do?  Make it 76 so as to leave room for the item
type and a space.

-- Ted.

On 17 September 2011 09:23, Peter Tynan <happy at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> On 17 September 2011 08:08, Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, 01:05:52 EEST, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikizine.org> wrote:
>>
>>> By default the width of a gophersite is 70 symbols. I suspect that
>>> comes from the early monitors.
>>
>> The early terminals were 80 wide, and the first gopher clients used six or so chars for item types leaving about 74 for the content. And even today Lynx on a 80 wide terminal does the same.
>>
>>> But, besides tradition, is there any reason why you should not increase
>>> that?
>>
>> No, not really. 100 wide should work just fine these days...
>>
>> - Kim
>>
>
> it's not unheard of for some of us to use lynx  to browse gopher sites
> in an 80 column terminal even today, item types + 70 still fits quite
> nicely on 80 columns.
>
> Peter
>
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