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> Text editors use monospaced fonts! > It doesn't matter what editor you use. Vim, Emacs, TextMate, Sublime Text, Eclipse, Gedit, Notepad++? All of them use mo
by Stratoscope 4y ago
> Text editors use monospaced fonts!
> It doesn't matter what editor you use. Vim, Emacs, TextMate, Sublime Text, Eclipse, Gedit, Notepad++? All of them use monospaced fonts.
Most modern editors support proportional fonts. The obvious exceptions are those that run in a terminal, like Vim.
In 2012 when the article was written I was using Visual Studio, various JetBrains IDEs, and Araxis Merge, and they all supported proportional fonts at the time. I've been writing all my code in proportional fonts for at least 10-15 years.
Other editors that support proportional fonts today include VS Code and the editor in the Meld diff tool.