From: nospam@dev.null (Alexey Pustyntsev)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:51:55 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Hu1vP-00025K-Bz@sycore.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f46c52560705311043w561a23d4w671f3a4e9ac9ed9a@mail.gmail.com> (Rustom Mody's message of "Thu\, 31 May 2007 23\:13\:28 +0530")
"Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> 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.
>
Hi!
I am using a fixed width font and all my lines of code don't span 72
characters. I think this length is comfortable and there is plenty
of space left.
--
Rgds
Alexey
Today is Boomtime, the 6th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3173
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 17:43 Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux Rustom Mody
2007-05-31 18:01 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <465F0A4F.9090900@gnu.org>
2007-05-31 18:08 ` Rustom Mody
2007-06-01 7:51 ` Alexey Pustyntsev [this message]
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2007-05-31 18:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-07 21:25 ` Ken Goldman
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2007-05-30 1:10 Tim Johnson
2007-05-30 2:05 ` Tyler Smith
2007-05-30 2:35 ` Tim Johnson
2007-05-30 7:36 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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