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You certainly find some people who don't use monospaced fonts in their editors/IDEs, but of course while that may make for better readability on the line, you l
by blacksmith_tb 6y ago
You certainly find some people who don't use monospaced fonts in their editors/IDEs, but of course while that may make for better readability on the line, you lose the consistent indentation (matters more for some languages than others, Python e.g.)
- hollerith 6y agoThere are some indentation styles where you don't lose consistent indentation in that situation.
- dragonwriter 6y agoYou don't lose consistent indentation at all with proportional fonts (N-leading-spaces provides a consistent horizontal position.) You do lose consistent non-indent alignment (N-leading space plus M-other characters doesn't consistently result in the same horizontal position for constant N+M, or even constant N and M, M>0.) For python, this is not a problem, as consistent indentation is important, but alignment is not (I use proportional fonts for Python and YAML all the time, and the only problem is how annoying the ASCII Art labels someone put in some of our YAML are without consistent alignment.)
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoAnd better readability is more important than ascii art.