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Amazed that Dennis Ritchie used a non-monospace font, I don't think I have seen any other serious developer use one. Also amused to see the Jerkcity comic open

Amazed that Dennis Ritchie used a non-monospace font, I don't think I have seen any other serious developer use one. Also amused to see the Jerkcity comic open in Jordan Hubbard's screenshot.

joosters 11y ago
I've tried it a few times, but it's just so painful when you want things to align. Now, if you had a really good code layout tool that could 'snap' parts of lines so that they horizontally align at sensible places, I think non-monospace fonts could be useful. In fact, having smart alignment would be great even with monospace fonts. I work in emacs and it's frustrating when the editor decides to 'fix' your own spacing because the editor-mode doesn't have a very intelligent layout system...
- lazyjones 11y ago
  > having smart alignment would be great even with monospace fonts. The "smart" magic you are looking for is called "tabs".
  - jff 11y ago
    And they will fight you every step of the way, every time you suggest they use the indentation character for indentation.
- bmn_ 11y ago
  http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
- jjuhl 11y ago
  I recommend clang-format : http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
- jff 11y ago
  Your indentation levels will show up correctly, and that's really all that matters. Relax. Or, if you really care, switch to Go and use gofmt.
jff 11y ago
Well, except for the Lyx and KDE founder, Matthias Ettrich, who calls out his use of proportional fonts in his email on that very page!
Fkidsthesedays 11y ago
If you ask really serious .. I dont think any serious developer gives a shit about font being used . Back in the days people used to be happy even to see a character on screen . These days js script writer using bower and other similar things and calling it automation will never understand that. The rush or high of using sun , bare bone x11 linux , developing without any autocomplete , when your experience was your stack overflow . So please dont talk about serious developer font , its highly offending to all the work.
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Amazed that Dennis Ritchie used a non-monospace font, I don't think I have seen any other serious developer use one. Also amused to see the Jerkcity comic open in Jordan Hubbard's screenshot.

joosters 11y ago

I've tried it a few times, but it's just so painful when you want things to align. Now, if you had a really good code layout tool that could 'snap' parts of lines so that they horizontally align at sensible places, I think non-monospace fonts could be useful. In fact, having smart alignment would be great even with monospace fonts. I work in emacs and it's frustrating when the editor decides to 'fix' your own spacing because the editor-mode doesn't have a very intelligent layout system...

lazyjones 11y ago
> having smart alignment would be great even with monospace fonts. The "smart" magic you are looking for is called "tabs".
- jff 11y ago
  And they will fight you every step of the way, every time you suggest they use the indentation character for indentation.
bmn_ 11y ago
http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
jjuhl 11y ago
I recommend clang-format : http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
jff 11y ago
Your indentation levels will show up correctly, and that's really all that matters. Relax. Or, if you really care, switch to Go and use gofmt.

jff 11y ago

Well, except for the Lyx and KDE founder, Matthias Ettrich, who calls out his use of proportional fonts in his email on that very page!

Fkidsthesedays 11y ago

If you ask really serious .. I dont think any serious developer gives a shit about font being used . Back in the days people used to be happy even to see a character on screen . These days js script writer using bower and other similar things and calling it automation will never understand that. The rush or high of using sun , bare bone x11 linux , developing without any autocomplete , when your experience was your stack overflow . So please dont talk about serious developer font , its highly offending to all the work.

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