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| apex |
 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:45 pm |
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| Verdana at 7pt is my developing font of choice. E wont let me use it because it's Monospace. I'm not sure if I would purchase a text editor that didn't give me the freedom to use whatever font I was most comfortable with. |
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| charlesroper |
| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:05 pm |
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| E won't let you use it because it's not monospace (fixed-width); it's variable-width fonts it won't let you use. But I agree, one should be allowed to select any font. |
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| Frank |
| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:47 pm |
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| +1 for this one. E has too many font-issues. |
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| borland |
| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:40 pm |
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While I agree with the sentiment that one should be free to use whatever environment one desires, sometimes this is not always a good idea.
There are many situations, and I think this is definitely one of them, where by adjusting to a "constraint", one can come to understand the reasoning behind the constraint, and gain knowledge and skill, rather than just trying to blindly do everything "the way I always have because it works for me."
In case the point was a bit subtle, let me reiterate:
USE A MONOSPACE FONT ALREADY!!! HOW CAN YOU WRITE CODE PROPERLY IN A VARIABLE WIDTH FONT??!?! THATS UTTERLY CRAZY |
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| JFred |
| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:30 am |
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borland wrote: ...HOW CAN YOU WRITE CODE PROPERLY IN A VARIABLE WIDTH FONT??!?! THATS UTTERLY CRAZY
Only indentation needs to be "Monospace". And not even that. Really, all you need is for it to line up correctly. Word processors do this all the time, by setting tabs up on the ruler at the top of the page. Source code itself can be written in any font size or family.
Monospace is just an easy hack to get indentation to line up. There is no other reason for it. |
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| =zz= |
| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:59 pm |
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| How said e is only for editing source code? I'm sure there are people who want to have the power of e for writing stuff like blog posts, articles? |
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| ZiRo |
| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:55 pm |
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| Column selection would be funky with variable width fonts :\ |
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| PlenoJure |
| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:17 am |
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JFred wrote: Monospace is just an easy hack to get indentation to line up. There is no other reason for it.
Monospace adds a lot to readability, not just for indentation, but comparing two lines, for keeping formatting clean when adding things like comments to code; not to mention ZiRo's comment about column selection.
Given the target user for a editor like this, I can't see supporting a variable width font being worth the development time. Personally, I use this for code, text & log files - if I want to write for something like a blog, I'd use a real word processor (such as Word).
I want a text editor that's really good at what it does, and a word processor that's good at what it does - not one application that is moderate at both. |
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