i use notepad++, it has language specific formatting and colour coding / auto completion / plugins, and i just like it in general.
@sam - you suggested 100 upthread, curious what changed your mind? smaller screen argument makes sense (as it happens i’m planning to spend several hours coding on my 13" laptop, so i should be able to understand this concern better, especially since i do use 2 windows side by side all the time). but 80 still feels so limited. take this code for instance:
if the limit was 90 characters the method above wouldn’t need to use 2 lines for 207/208, 212/213, 218/219. to me breaking those lines in 2 is a poor trade off - that extra millisecond it takes when you just need to quickly scan some code adds up. and teletype code has a lot of examples like this, since there are many deep nested structures. op_ definitions is another example (i doubt you would need to check those declarations once they’re done, those really ought to be behind clang-format off i think…):
re: git - why would it mess up the commit history? it can take longer to do a blame but you can still track any changes, no?
i’m okay with leaving it as 80 if you prefer (and several hours on a laptop might change my mind about increasing it), and i refactored some of my code to take advantage of #define to make some lines shorter, so it’s less of a problem now (and there is always clang-format off option for where it makes sense).