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Just recorded this GIF of typing out a function with the added visual cues: http://imgur.com/a/LQVV2 IMO it's comparable to a WYSIWYG equation editor vs looking at raw LaTeX - conceptual errors pop more.
Also out of curiosity, what editor / plugins are those?
I like switching fonts every couple of years just to keep it fresh. My font right now is Iosevka: https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ A font generated from its source code. You can build your own variant. It has ligatures as well. I like that it’s not as wide as many other monospace fonts.
My problem with Iosevka (and Input and others like them) is that the [x-height][0] is too large, ie the bottom-half parts are too tall compared to the top-half and uppercase letters. Especially in less-wide weights, it feels muddy and hard to distinguish. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height
I like switching fonts every couple of years just to keep it fresh. My font right now is Iosevka: https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ A font generated from its source code. You can build your own variant. It has ligatures as well. I like that it’s not as wide as many other monospace fonts.
I love Iosevka Term! My only issue with it is that there seems to be a problem in Emacs 25 that makes the screen flicker once in a while when I use it. For Emacs, I like to use Fantasque Sans Mono, another amazing font.
I am a huge, huge fan of the free font “Input”[1]. Just love how customizable it is, so much so, that I’ve replaced Pragmata Pro with Input on Sublime. [1] http://input.fontbureau.com/
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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…
If needed allow your editor to have a task to reformat a code file on Open to apply formatting you desire vs the teams or project guidelines.
Honeslty, this should be handled by the language itself. If a language supports unicode, why not support ≠ for not-equals instead of "!="? Then provide a pre-processor that will replace all your ugly "!=" with the correct mathematical symbol.
> If a language supports unicode, why not support ≠ for not-equals instead of "!="? Perl 6 tends to support both multicharacter ASCII operators and single-character Unicode equivalents.
> Picking a programming font is like picking a religion. No matter what you pick someone will say you're wrong. Most people will agree at least that monospaced fonts are ideal for reading code and that both of you who use proportionally spaces fonts are destined for hell, or at the very least, purgatory. I guess I'm destined for hell or purgatory then. Hanselman is not alone. I had the CEO of one company look over my…
rotationMatrix = [[ cos(x), -sin(x), 0],
[ sin(x), cos(x), 0],
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Block selection and anything having to do with IO formatting are very good reasons why monospaced fonts are still useful. That being said the idea that a programmer being resistant to changing their font style is indicative of general intellectual laziness is one of the most laughable things I've ever heard. I'd be more convinced if someone told me that refusing to change syntax highlighting themes implied you're a b…
> ...the idea that a programmer being resistant to changing their font style is indicative of general intellectual laziness is one of the most laughable things I've ever heard. Let me just mention that this isn't what I said at all. I don't blame you for misunderstanding, I must not have explained my thoughts clearly. I didn't say anything about intellectual "laziness", and I certainly didn't mean that someone who di…
This is a deeply personal choice, I feel. I am not a fan of using ligatures in programming code as it gives some abiguity around how many characters are in a given ligature. To each his/her own, I guess.
> Picking a programming font is like picking a religion. No matter what you pick someone will say you're wrong. Most people will agree at least that monospaced fonts are ideal for reading code and that both of you who use proportionally spaces fonts are destined for hell, or at the very least, purgatory. I guess I'm destined for hell or purgatory then. Hanselman is not alone. I had the CEO of one company look over my…
What about code that naturally represents tables, like this? rotationMatrix = [[ cos(x), -sin(x), 0], [ sin(x), cos(x), 0], [ 0, 0, 1]]
Your example is interesting because it combines two different kinds of alignment. One of them I find unhelpful - pushing everything to the right to match the length of the variable name. The other is the useful alignment within the matrix. So personally I would make this minor change:
rotationMatrix = [
[ cos(x), -sin(x), 0 ],
[ sin(x), cos(x), 0 ],
[ 0, 0, 1 ]
]