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It would say "that's horrible style, keep them all on one line, thanks" I use proportional fonts so playing games like that is unlikely to get the results one

It would say "that's horrible style, keep them all on one line, thanks" I use proportional fonts so playing games like that is unlikely to get the results one wants.

dozzie 11y ago
And I would say "not breaking your lines to fit in 80 columns is horrible style". Also, proportional fonts are very rare choice for code. You're the first person I've ever heard to use them this way. I take it that, all in all, Acme doesn't work with tabs correctly for indentation/alignment, the same as the rest of the editors.
- SixSigma 11y ago
  The plan9 team use proportional. Plan9 too the decision to drop support of the punch card derived TTY. Once you free yourself from 80 columns you can forget about it. There is no indentation/alignment dichotomy. Russ Cox, Rob Pike - Acme users Here's a picture of Dennis Ritchie using it http://nl.pcmweb.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sites/default/files/beeld/dennis_ritchie.jpg http://nl.pcmweb.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sites/default/fi...
  - dozzie 11y ago
    Precisely 80 columns may be derived from TTY, but the range 80 was chosen from is not. It's around the limit of a line human can easily comprehend in one look. If you make it 160 (easily doable), then the line gets too wide to read. Guess why articles in newspapers were typically organized in several narrow columns instead of spanning throughout the whole page, even when the article was several pages long? And once you forget about the ridiculous idea of having few lines as wide as the whole screen, so there is a small vertical area on the left with almost all the code, while two thirds of the screen is wasted (or so you need to scroll horizontally, which is equally bad), suddenly using proportional fonts goes awry, as you need the alignment, which is a separate thing from indentation.
    - SixSigma 11y ago
      With a tiling window manager, the window is not the width of the screen. Acme has no horizontal scrolling.

It would say "that's horrible style, keep them all on one line, thanks" I use proportional fonts so playing games like that is unlikely to get the results one wants.

dozzie 11y ago

And I would say "not breaking your lines to fit in 80 columns is horrible style". Also, proportional fonts are very rare choice for code. You're the first person I've ever heard to use them this way. I take it that, all in all, Acme doesn't work with tabs correctly for indentation/alignment, the same as the rest of the editors.

SixSigma 11y ago
The plan9 team use proportional. Plan9 too the decision to drop support of the punch card derived TTY. Once you free yourself from 80 columns you can forget about it. There is no indentation/alignment dichotomy. Russ Cox, Rob Pike - Acme users Here's a picture of Dennis Ritchie using it http://nl.pcmweb.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sites/default/files/beeld/dennis_ritchie.jpg http://nl.pcmweb.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sites/default/fi...
- dozzie 11y ago
  Precisely 80 columns may be derived from TTY, but the range 80 was chosen from is not. It's around the limit of a line human can easily comprehend in one look. If you make it 160 (easily doable), then the line gets too wide to read. Guess why articles in newspapers were typically organized in several narrow columns instead of spanning throughout the whole page, even when the article was several pages long? And once you forget about the ridiculous idea of having few lines as wide as the whole screen, so there is a small vertical area on the left with almost all the code, while two thirds of the screen is wasted (or so you need to scroll horizontally, which is equally bad), suddenly using proportional fonts goes awry, as you need the alignment, which is a separate thing from indentation.
  - SixSigma 11y ago
    With a tiling window manager, the window is not the width of the screen. Acme has no horizontal scrolling.