> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 24 Oct 2001 14:09:49 +0200 > > Paul> * It looks equally nice with varying-width fonts. This is > Paul> becoming more important with time (e.g. GNU Emacs 21). > > Hm, I would not use `nice' in the sentence, but I agree on `equally' :) > Are you actually using non fixed fonts for programming/terms?
Sure. I've been doing it for twenty years in some contexts. It's long been the tradition in the Smalltalk world, for example. C is older and (like Cobol and Fortran) the tradition is fixed-width. I have used C with varying-width fonts with some success, though never with the GNU indenting style (which isn't quite right for varying-width fonts). Regardless of the language used for writing code, though, our diagnostics should not assume fixed-width terminals. Diagnostics are meant for users, not C programmers. And more and more, users will be using varying-width fonts. > Paul> * You don't have to respond to bug reports about stuff not > Paul> lining up. (:-) > > Really? No one ever complained to you? I think that two people have complained in five years. Maybe three. I think I responded in one or cases (but I didn't _have_ to respond :-). It's not a big deal, really.
