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Emacs has been around for decades and supports proportional typefaces everywhere I tried to use them. Are modern tools more primitive than that?

• eviks 1y ago
  Nah, just as primitive as emacs, there are plenty of areas with no progress even after decades have passed How do you vertically align by = www = 1 iii = 2
  • tmtvl 1y ago
    You don't because the = isn't important, it's what comes after: www = 1 iii = 2 llanfair = 3
    • eviks 1y ago
      You do because it is, have you not read the tales of tables to notice the straightness of vertical borders? Your suggestion is not only much worse by joining the columns, wasting more space, but it's also invalid in many syntaxes
    • CRConrad 1y ago
      Uuaargh! That's the ugliest freaking thing I've seen in a long while. So, now, how do you do that in three lines?
      • tmtvl 1y ago
        We can do it in 2: (www, iii, llanfair) = (1, 2, 3)
        • CRConrad 1y ago
          Then for fuck's sake do it in one.