On 9/4/07, David Tweed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/4/07, Eivind Uggedal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FWIW, I use dwm on a two monitors setup with generally four columns, a > > > typical example being at > > > > > > http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sis05dst/desktop.jpg > > > > OT: How doy you manage to program with a non-monospaced font? > > It's not completely clear what you're asking. If you mean "how do you > deal with indentation and lining up stuff in non-ms font" then > indentation (particularly semantic indentation like in python) is > always done in spaces so that's not a problem. You can't do things > like line up > > if(function(boo, > zoo)){ > > so that the zoo lines up under the opening bracket, so I don't do that > :-) (And I don't find I miss it.) The basic reason I use a prop font > is that I generally find the biggest problems in my programming is > mismatches between things defined/used and other inconsistencies and > generally with a prop font I can get more on the screen to correlate > between files.
I understand your point of view:-) It would just be too much of a mental switch for me to move to a variable-width font. I limit my lines to 80 columns and tend to indent code beyond leading whitespace: http://pastie.caboo.se/94131 -- Cheers, Eivind Uggedal Engineer, Faculty of Social Science, MSc Computer Science, University of Oslo
