From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nospam@dev.null (Alexey Pustyntsev) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:51:55 +1100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180684203 9945 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2007 07:50:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:50:03 +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 01 09:50:02 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 1Hu1tZ-00007h-9w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:50:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hu1tY-0003Ep-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hu1tF-0003EJ-Fg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hu1t9-0003DC-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hu1t9-0003D2-Fd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:49:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.242.74.155] (helo=sycore.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hu1t8-0005fF-Lu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:49:35 -0400 Original-Received: by sycore.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id 6EE96177D3; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:49:13 +0400 (MSD) Original-Received: from sycore.org (d0011.ys.dialup.sakhalin.ru [195.72.251.11]) by sycore.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A05177CB for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:49:10 +0400 (MSD) Original-Received: from alexey by sycore.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hu1vP-00025K-Bz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:51:55 +1100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 Emacs/22.0.95.1 In-Reply-To: (Rustom Mody's message of "Thu\, 31 May 2007 23\:13\:28 +0530") X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:44587 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. > 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