Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures

Post by mattnewton » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 9:40 PM UTC

tobr wrote: post #183

mattnewton wrote: post #176

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Sublime-text-style multiple cursor text manipulation would break here. And your code would look different than everyone else's machine. How would you display a guideline to make sure you were under a characters-per-line style? What advantages are there? I could never see it working for me. I want a program to format my code with resonable defaults and be done with it.

How would multiple cursors be affected by this? I use a proportional typeface and multiple cursors for all sorts of things, I can't really see how these concepts are even related. As you say, use automatic formatting and you don't need to worry about line-length. (Otoh, having a mandatory max line length makes about as much sense as having a max identifier length or a max lines per file.)

Post by shagie » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 9:53 PM UTC

Avshalom wrote: post #155

mathgenius wrote: post #103

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> For example, it cured the bad habit I had of lining too many things up in columns I don't like this style either, but it's a style not a "bad habit."

nah, it's a bad habit. It means constant readjustment and unnecessarily bloated diffs every time you change a function or variable name. or the lovely foo := a; bar := b; then a day later foo := a; bar := b; foobar := cd; which also points to the problem that it lends itself to premature constant readjustment because a day later you have to move every thing again because as it turns out you really needed foobarlist a…

Post by khedoros1 » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 9:59 PM UTC

simias wrote: post #65

nsxwolf wrote: post #55

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What are you going to do when you get older and your eyes go through "the change"? You can keep your font sizes and wear readers, but then don't you have to move your head a lot to view the entire magnified image? Any presbyopic developers care to chime in on what the experience is like? I'm 40, so mine could cross over any time now. I hate 16:9 too. Please give me back the bottom of my screen that you chopped off.

You could try rotating your screen to get 9:16, although I find that it tends to be a bit narrow if you want to split vertically and have two pieces of code side by side. With 16:10 screens however I think it work rather well, I currently use three 1920x1200 monitors and two of them are vertical, it looks like this: https://svkt.org/~simias/emacs-vertical.png It's also great for looking at docs.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 10:04 PM UTC

Avshalom wrote: post #155

mathgenius wrote: post #103

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> For example, it cured the bad habit I had of lining too many things up in columns I don't like this style either, but it's a style not a "bad habit."

nah, it's a bad habit. It means constant readjustment and unnecessarily bloated diffs every time you change a function or variable name. or the lovely foo := a; bar := b; then a day later foo := a; bar := b; foobar := cd; which also points to the problem that it lends itself to premature constant readjustment because a day later you have to move every thing again because as it turns out you really needed foobarlist a…

Post by khedoros1 » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 10:14 PM UTC

edejong wrote: post #33

Apparently I'm one of the two users of proportionality spaced fonts for coding. I've used this now for five years and I don't understand why developers still see this need to code as if monospaced terminals is all that's available. Especially on large screens with high dpi it reads much faster. It also makes it less awkward to use editor unicode substitution for display purposes.