From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:25:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4669c6cb$1@news.greennet.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181299524 11677 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2007 10:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:45:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 12:45:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hwby7-0003Mh-70 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:45:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hwby6-0006eZ-Oj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:45:22 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; AIX 000C89FF4C00; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 Original-X-Trace: 8 Jun 2007 17:14:51 -0400, 192.91.197.52 Original-Lines: 17 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!feedme.ziplink.net!news.greennet.net!192.91.197.52 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149179 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:44:07 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44782 Archived-At: I personally like Lucida console bold, but everyone has their preference. I agree that a fixed width font is preferable for code portability. I limit my lines to ~100 characters so I can put two windows side by side. If you have very wide lines, perhaps the issue is your coding style. As with newspapers, narrower columns will be easier for your maintainer to read. Rustom Mody wrote: > How do you folk manage editing code? > > I find that with a fixed width font (courier) I run out of screen space > And with a proportional font the indentation gets messed up because the > default space-width is too narrow. > >