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When Emacs started supporting variable-width fonts well, I tried coding with them for a while. It works fine. I went back to monospace not because I'd been more
by abecedarius 10y ago
When Emacs started supporting variable-width fonts well, I tried coding with them for a while. It works fine. I went back to monospace not because I'd been more productive, individually, with it, but because I needed to see my code the way others would see it.
There's a book https://www.amazon.com/Human-Factors-Typography-Readable-Programs/dp/0201107457 https://www.amazon.com/Human-Factors-Typography-Readable-Pro... on typography for more readable programs.
- khedoros 10y agoI don't like programming with proportional fonts as much because they tend to be narrower than monospaced fonts. To get the same on-screen indentation, I end up using more spaces, and it's easier to have an off-by-one different in indentation, which is troublesome if I'm using Python, and which really bothers me if I'm using C++. Aside from that, I like having nicely-aligned tables in my code, and it's sometimes useful to align conditional statements across lines. Monospaced fonts just fit into my workflow a little bit better.