From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: alastair@d-silva.org, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] lib/hexdump.c: Allow 64 bytes per line
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:48:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190412134802.kprel2c2iqijd4ai@pathway.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190410031720.11067-2-alastair@au1.ibm.com>
On Wed 2019-04-10 13:17:17, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
>
> With modern high resolution screens, we can display more data, which makes
> life a bit easier when debugging.
I have quite some doubts about this feature.
We are talking about more than 256 characters per-line. I wonder
if such a long line is really easier to read for a human.
I am not expert but there is a reason why the standard is 80
characters per-line. I guess that anything above 100 characters
is questionable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length
somehow confirms that.
Second, if we take 8 pixels per-character. Then we need
2048 to show the 256 characters. It is more than HD.
IMHO, there is still huge number of people that even do
not have HD display, especially on a notebook.
I am sorry but I am strongly against having this hardcoded
anywhere. And I doubt that there will be enough users
to complicate the code and make it configurable.
Best Regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-12 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-10 3:17 [PATCH 0/4] Hexdump enhancements Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-10 3:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] lib/hexdump.c: Allow 64 bytes per line Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-12 13:48 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2019-04-12 23:22 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-15 9:02 ` Petr Mladek
2019-04-15 10:29 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-15 10:56 ` David Laight
2019-04-15 10:59 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-10 3:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] lib/hexdump.c: Optionally suppress lines of filler bytes Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-10 3:32 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-12 14:03 ` Petr Mladek
2019-04-12 23:28 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-15 9:18 ` Petr Mladek
2019-04-15 10:33 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-10 3:17 ` [PATCH 3/4] lib/hexdump.c: Replace ascii bool in hex_dump_to_buffer with flags Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-10 6:56 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-04-12 14:12 ` Petr Mladek
2019-04-12 23:31 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-15 9:24 ` Petr Mladek
2019-04-15 10:07 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-15 10:20 ` David Laight
2019-04-15 10:44 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-15 11:03 ` David Laight
2019-04-15 11:12 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-12 14:47 ` [Intel-gfx] " Tvrtko Ursulin
2019-04-10 3:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] lib/hexdump.c: Allow multiple groups to be separated by lines '|' Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-10 8:45 ` David Laight
2019-04-10 9:52 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-04-10 8:53 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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