Re: rough first impressions

[Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavallaro@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 08:46 AM, Neel Krishnaswami wrote:

> That reduces the amount of context information I have available. When
> editing an existing function, I want to be able to quickly find two
> kinds of information.

Understood, but realize that half of a 1600 x 1200 monitor is the same 
height as a full 800 x 600 monitor, and I know your old enough to have 
coded on one of those, so...

[interesting details of Neel's coding setup elided]

> So what I want is a 3200x2400 monitor, which would let me have 4
> 150x80 Emacs frames open at once. :)

Well this is a start:  <http://www.apple.com/displays/acd23/> It does 
1920 x 1200. I don't have one, but at the font and size I normally use, 
this would give you three 150 x 100 frames, or, six half as high, and 
you wouldn't need to worry about keeping things to 80 columns :^)

This  <http://www.apple.com/displays/acd20/> does 1680 by 1050, and 
it's actually reasonably priced these days.

BTW, I just checked, and I'm reading mail in a 100 column window, and 
it doesn't seem to cause undue eyestrain.


Raf

Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
raffaelcavallaro@mac.com