On Jul 17, 4:11 pm, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:35, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> programing in a non-fixed width font is a real pleasure > > If you're masochistic, maybe. Do you find fixed-width fonts ugly? > > I don't find that fixed-width fonts are ugly, but variable-width fonts > sure are more of a pleasure. And with code-colouring in any good IDE, > there is no real need to have the dot or other tiny characters jump > out and announce their presence. So long as the indentation lines up > (which it does, with tabs or spaces) then I do not see any problem > with variable-width. > > What are the counter-arguments? > > > I > > really would like to know why anyone would use a non-fixed-width font > > for programming. > > Aesthetics.
Its more (or less depending...) than just aesthetics. Its about optimization. On a fixed width font an 'i' is as wide as an 'm' as a '.' This means that a fwf is either a unreasonably small or the lines are too long. [Note: I use only fwf because all the tools I know/use/tried are broken for vwf] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list