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I'm waiting for the editor with a layout engine that doesn't assume monospace -- the tooling is a bigger problem than anything else for variable-width fonts.
by jowiar 10y ago
I'm waiting for the editor with a layout engine that doesn't assume monospace -- the tooling is a bigger problem than anything else for variable-width fonts.
- dri_ft 10y agoI haven't used it much, but I recently learnt that emacs allows it. There's a minor mode called ‘variable-pitch-mode’.
- terhechte 10y agoEmacs can do it just fine: mx variable-pitch-mode https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7u7iagunxl4p25/emacs-var-pitch.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7u7iagunxl4p25/emacs-var-pitch.pn...
- geofft 10y agoYou might like the "elastic tabstops" idea: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ Although the editor support for the concept doesn't look great.
- tobr 10y agoMostly works in Sublime, which I've been using with Input Sans for a bit over a year. The only thing that breaks is indentation guides, which end up in the wrong place. I would not want to go back to a monospaced font.
- kbenson 10y agoSlightly related, I've been thinking for a while how an editor that tracked indentation and made each indentation/scope a different background shade and/or slightly smaller font might be interesting to play with. Does anyone know of a system that uses this?
- terhechte 10y agoThere's a package for emacs to do that: http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/color-box.png http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/color-box.png http://foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/ http://foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/
- kbenson 10y agoThanks! Now I wonder what it looks like if you keep dropping the font a point.
- LeonidasXIV 10y agoHas been working in SciTE since ages and SciTE is not even a particularly fancy editor. I used to program Python in proportional fonts which worked pretty well.