How to display an 80 character line length on my Android phone

.Hi - I know that this may be somewhat off topic but from past experience I know that there will be members on the forum who may be able to help me on this one. I would like to be able to use my Android phone to display some computer code using an 80 character line length in place of the 40 character line as set at present. Can anyone please advise me on how this can be done.

I don’t know the answer, but I’m responding just to bump your request back up the list.

My first thought was: it must depend upon whether your screen resolution will support any legible font at 80 characters per line … but your question may be more subtle than that.

MichaelG.

This is not a model engineering question and it would be better to try a search on Google for an answer.

Like this one: **LINK**

Sorry, Paul … your link appears to be almost totally irrelevant to the question

MichaelG.

The post was made in the interests of being able to develop my wokkshop CAM procedures whilst enjoying a few days away from home.

The answer will depend on what App you are using to display the code

My android phone has an App, Notepad, which allows me to adjust the font size by 'clicking' on the characters/line and then selecting Font, and a slider allows me to adjust the size.

Can you give us a little more information on the App you are using ?

Edited By Gerard O'Toole on 05/06/2022 07:54:41

.Hi Gerard - To avoid ruffling any feathers I will send you a pm to answer your query.

Reg, PM replied to Gerard

Dont worry abouit ruffled feathers. I would be interested in the answer. The Tea Room is for questions & answers on any topic and is not limited to engineering or modelling topics.

regards

Sure. , My reply was as follows:-

I don't see any way of specifying exactly 80 characters. On my phone the character size changes in about 6 steps so i can approximate 80 characters but only when the phone is in held landscape mode. i.e. left to right and not holding it upright

I'm afraid i cannot find anyway of specifying exactly 80 characters in notepad

The setting remains set to the last setting I use, i.e. approx 80 if i set it that size.

If you could save your text in a pdf file with 80 character line length then that should display as 80 characters but perhaps pdf doesn't suit your needs.

Sorry cannot be of more help

Hi Greensands, which program, with the 40 char wide limit, are you currently using to view the code?

Ed.

Have a look at "Code Editor - Compiler & IDE" in Google Play. Be careful though as it requires permissions to edit any file in your device!

Russell

Thankyou Greensands.

regards

Edited By Oldiron on 07/06/2022 16:46:43

Judging by this review of 7 code editors that run on Android phones, none of them do what Greensand's wants. All the screen shots show text being chopped off at about 40 characters, making it necessary to scroll the screen. May be a limitation of the display. This example is typical:

Never done any Android development myself, but I believe most Android code is developed on a PC, either windows or Linux and mainly debugged on a emulator. Only in the last stage does the program get to run on a phone. Many advantages in developing on a PC, not least they have big screens!

Dave

Yes, my phone will display an 80 character line but I need a magnifying glass to read it. My favorite editor for code is gedit running on Linux. It includes syntax checking for most common programming languages.

Russell

What happens to SOD's example if you rotate the display 90 degrees?

I like gedit too, but kate is better if you want to manage multiple files in one project. Recently I started using geany, not sure why but I subconsciously prefer it to kate. For single files I almost always use gedit.

In the good old days programmers argued ferociously about emacs versus vi. A religious debate that sometimes ended in an actual punch up! Both powerful rather than easy to use. I never got on with emacs, even though everyone agreed vi is short for 'vile'.

vi's latest incarnation is vim, quite hard to learn, but for certain rare types of edit it kicks the euphemism out of GUI editors.

Dave