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So? Which would you rather be, fit, active, and sensible until you're 85, or spend the last ten years of your life drooling in a wheelchair in some god-forsaken nursing home?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Sometimes, you even get to die in the middle.
:(
Cheers,
Sebastian
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"If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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You are an employee rather than a worker then?
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I'm a...
Sorry, what was thwe question?
Work! The curse of the Drinking Classes!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
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The article wrote: Each additional year of employment was associated with around a six week later age of onset.
Man, not too great of a ratio there.
Six weeks of usable brains for every year?
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You young'uns ar spoiled by modern technology. I'm one of those old geezers still writing code, dangerously close to the 3 decade mark. I think John Simmons is older than me. He's angrier, i'm more dangerous 
So, I'm contemplating a couple of s/w issues and one of those is - when to hit the return key?
As I type this, I have to my left a 1920x1200 monitor connected to my 1920x1200 laptop. It seems to me a little silly to worry about any developer who might not have the same h/w rsources. To arbitrarily linebreak at 80, 132, or whatever seems a bit silly.
Printing? Muahahahaaha.. come on.
Thoughts?
Charlie Gilley
Will program for food...
Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
This crap sandwich is all yours.... 2009 "Stimulus Bill"
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hey, I searched, I didn't see it. Am I starting a dead-horse discussion?
Apologies if I am.
Charlie Gilley
Will program for food...
Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
This crap sandwich is all yours.... 2009 "Stimulus Bill"
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Hi,
I use different computers, different monitor widths, and I hate scrolling horizontally all the time, so I prefer not to exceed some 90 characters on a line; I use 4-space tabs and told Visual to show guide lines by adding a registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VCSExpress\9.0\Text Editor (adjust as required)
Add a string called “Guides”, set its value to RGB(255,0,0) 80,96
BTW: my printing code will take care of lines that exceed the page width.
FWIW: I don't want wide code snippets when composing a message here!
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modified on Sunday, May 17, 2009 6:32 PM
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Luc Pattyn wrote: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VCSExpress\9.0\Text Editor (adjust as required) Add a string called “Guides”, set its value to RGB(255,0,0) 80,96
I like it. 
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Another useful registry hack is:
Under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0 key, you can create a DWORD UseMRUDocOrdering = 1.
What this does is, when you select a tab in the editor, that tab moves to be the leftmost tab. This obviously keeps the most recently used files/designers visible in the editor. Only the least used fall off the end.
Works in VS2008, VS2005 and their express versions.
I like it, anyway.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Now if we could just get a multirow tab strip, or have the tabs shrink to fit like in a browser...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
-- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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Maybe in VS2010, now they are using the delights of WPF for the Editor?
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Hi Henry,
thanks for the info. I'll give it a go, not sure I will ever get used to tabs hopping around though.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
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Luc Pattyn wrote: not sure I will ever get used to tabs hopping around though
Yeah, I no longer notice it though.
Thing is, if you don't like it, set the DWORD to 0, or delete it.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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That looks useful. I may give it a try.
Kevin
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That is really neat. I never worry about the width though, usually the first (80/96/132/500/however many characters fit on your screen) give me enough of an idea of what's going on with that line that I don't need the rest of it unless I am sure there is something wrong with it and need to debug that particular line. Like you, when I print VS2008 wraps the text that's too wide. Maybe it would be just as well for anyone concerned to turn on the word wrap in the IDE which in VS2008 can be done at Tools -> Options, under Text Editor, All Languages, General under the Settings section.
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The guides are cool. Thanks
George
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No problem.
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charlieg wrote: I'm one of those old geezers still writing code, dangerously close to the 3 decade mark.
Youngster! I wrote my first program in 1967 (remember punch cards? ), so I'm working on my 5th decade.
I usually try to keep my code on a normal screen or page, so I keep it around 80 characters wide, but sometimes I violate that guideline.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I salute you sir! And, yes, I have used punch cards.
Charlie Gilley
Will program for food...
Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
This crap sandwich is all yours.... 2009 "Stimulus Bill"
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