From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 1 15:12:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72C037B401 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:12:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7422443F85 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:12:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b234.otenet.gr [212.205.244.242]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h21NCJks008872; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 01:12:20 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h21NCIef049828; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 01:12:18 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h21NCGg3049827; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 01:12:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 01:12:16 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Terry Lambert Cc: Wes Peters , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C coding editor Message-ID: <20030301231216.GD47955@gothmog.gr> References: <20030221122103.GA2073@asterix.local> <200302260841.40693.wes@softweyr.com> <3E5D0008.20009@mitre.org> <200302272324.56873.wes@softweyr.com> <3E5F85B3.268BD21C@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E5F85B3.268BD21C@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-02-28 07:52, Terry Lambert wrote: > Wes Peters wrote: > > No, but your editor really ought to be able to interpret tab stops > > correctly at like 0.5 in increments. Code editors on the Mac have > > been doing this for years. > > If editors like this were more common, it would be a lot easier to > justify use of proportional fonts in coding editors. I don't think > anyone really cares how many characters there are after a tabstop, > so long as the visual layout is uniform to the left of the code. If > you use indentation, this still works, no mater what your font, as > long as there are fixed indentations per tab (IMO). True, true. The printouts of code created with literate programming tools like tangle/weave and their many offsprings are very easy to read if indentation has constant width. The font of the program text isn't really important, as long as nesting isn't horribly broken by someone who typed the wrong number of spaces instead of just hitting tab. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message