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One developer's 'river' is another's 'grid'. Being able to scan down quickly makes it easier to compare lines against each other. That's not something you do wh
by blowski 10y ago
One developer's 'river' is another's 'grid'. Being able to scan down quickly makes it easier to compare lines against each other. That's not something you do when reading a novel or a newspaper article, but it's something you do all the time when reading code.
- __jal 10y agoMaybe I'm a weirdo. I find it massively distracting. About the only time column-alignment is helpful is when scanning for typos, but that's handled pretty capably in other ways by most editors more sophisticated than Text Edit.