[arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

[Loui Chang]

On Wed 30 Jun 2010 18:48 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from Aaron Griffin's message of 2010-06-30 17:55:40 +0200:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> I have no idea where the number came from, but both 80 and 132 are
> > >> standard column widths used for normal and wide terminals.
> > >
> > > should be 78 columns I do believe that's the standard for kernel/git
> > > it allows for email comments more easily apparently.
> > 
> > No, physical terminals went to 80 columns. The 78 number was likely
> > related to editor chrome, such as line numbering... I'm not sure of
> > the details.
> > 
> > I believe email typically has 78 width due to the fact that "> " is
> > expected for replies.
> 
> I also read about 72, and it's my current setting for vim when editing
> mails, but I have no idea where that comes from...

Yeah I generally use 72 for emails.