From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:12:52 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85ira8zwt7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180636840 4001 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2007 18:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 18:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 31 20:40:34 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 1HtpZX-0004nS-Vt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 20:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HtpZX-0007p7-Ev for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 14:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.news-service.com!news.astraweb.com!newsrouter-eu.astraweb.com!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sI3piI86EvOWFIft8IHBR059qQw= Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 May 2007 20:12:52 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 3c36a644.newsspool4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=P7`eOf5Ul79^8FBo0_81f>4IUKCV`H8_`hhQ4^9QSCVg3dO6OIC5DBZVJ9; d[h[11oF_O>BU7SANO4XZ7 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148987 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:44576 Archived-At: "Rustom Mody" writes: > 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. Courier has a bad legibility/screenestate ratio. I use 10x20, a fixed width _pixel_ font (meaning that some human designed this pixel for pixel, rather than relying on some rasterizer to come up with some approximation to an outline, a process that starts working somewhat tolerably at resolutions of 200dpi and higher). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum