Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:22:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Sean Hamilton <sh@planetquake.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C coding editor Message-ID: <20030302132150.J579@znfgre.tberna.bet> In-Reply-To: <000d01c2e093$e4880910$d1d7e8d8@slugabed.org> References: <20030221122103.GA2073@asterix.local> <3E5F85B3.268BD21C@mindspring.com> <20030301231216.GD47955@gothmog.gr> <200303012256.02533.wes@softweyr.com> <000d01c2e093$e4880910$d1d7e8d8@slugabed.org>
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On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Sean Hamilton wrote:
> I suppose Pascal would be alright in variable width, but certainly not C. I
> tried using variable with for C a while back, and the main problem I had was
> not with spacing, but my severely defective ocular receptors were unable to
> distingush between a lot of the symbols. IIRC, I went back to monospace
> after trying to find the syntax error on a line which wound up ending with a
> colon.
So the real problem was the FONT, not the fact that the font was variable
width.
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