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From: "Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 23:38:34 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f46c52560705311108s4311c3c1ube6454a05975054e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465F0A4F.9090900@gnu.org>


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Yeah wish for the good ol days (Sigh)
When I was a C programmer (and equally haskell, lisp, assembly...) I used a
console and left fonts (and X) to the sissies who liked eye-candy.
Today I work with ruby on rails -- involves at any time 10-15 buffers to be
**simultaneously** manipulated selected from close to a hundred files.

All to be done on a 15 inch monitor (until Monday when my machine was hacked
into when I carelessly left my root open and sshd running!).  Now it wont
boot and so I'm on my 14 inch laptop.



Now what is it you were saying about 80 columns ??





On 5/31/07, Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> All code is narrow enough to fit on a hollerith card (80 columns).
> How could you run out of screen space?
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-31 18:08 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2007-06-01  7:51 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
     [not found] <mailman.1454.1180633421.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-31 18:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-07 21:25 ` Ken Goldman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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