I object to this whole thread as bikeshedding, however I happen to use proportional fonts for code (lucide sans unicode in windows) but just yesterday reverted

I object to this whole thread as bikeshedding, however I happen to use proportional fonts for code (lucide sans unicode in windows) but just yesterday reverted back to a proportional font (lucida console). While I much, much prefer proportional it's simply that indented stuff after text didn't line up properly in it eg. stuff = 23 more stuff = 99 x = 41 (edit: sorry HN is messing up the indenting even further, but you know what I'm getting at) Also my magit popup buffer is all ziggy-zaggy instead of properly column'ed. I can live with that. Edit - and git log which relies on fixed-width to show properly gets all bollixed. In your case I can't see your code suffering at all from these problems, so I'm fine with it. The niceness of proportionals may be enough for me to go back to it. I don't know yet. Further edit: thanks for the article!