From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 2 13:22:35 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 EFDCF37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:22:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439EC43FCB for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:22:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@freebsd.org) Received: from master.gorean.org (12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com[12.234.22.23]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <2003030221223200100j6kqqe>; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 21:22:32 +0000 Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:22:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton To: Sean Hamilton Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C coding editor In-Reply-To: <000d01c2e093$e4880910$d1d7e8d8@slugabed.org> Message-ID: <20030302132150.J579@znfgre.tberna.bet> References: <20030221122103.GA2073@asterix.local> <3E5F85B3.268BD21C@mindspring.com> <20030301231216.GD47955@gothmog.gr> <200303012256.02533.wes@softweyr.com> <000d01c2e093$e4880910$d1d7e8d8@slugabed.org> Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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. -- This .signature sanitized for your protection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message