Re:When monospace fonts aren't: The Unicode character width ...
by mzs on Saturday September 12, 2015 @11:32AM
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First I just want to thank you for the very pleasant reply. More often than not people online tend to get very religious and downright mean about things like convention like this, so thank you the dialog here has been refreshing.
It's not exactly what you are after, but I think is more fundamentally what you are after - ways to make it easier to understand what code is doing. You can have the best of both worlds too here with something like noweb and two windows.
One other thing I ran into is a code base that had incredibly long lines (more than 132 often). So I started using ndiff to help me there. It's a python script that puts + and - under the lines where the differences are as well. I also wrote a little script to html it with different colors. It was pretty awful until I made it monospace too sadly.
You might be interested in literate programming:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming#Tools
It's not exactly what you are after, but I think is more fundamentally what you are after - ways to make it easier to understand what code is doing. You can have the best of both worlds too here with something like noweb and two windows.
One other thing I ran into is a code base that had incredibly long lines (more than 132 often). So I started using ndiff to help me there. It's a python script that puts + and - under the lines where the differences are as well. I also wrote a little script to html it with different colors. It was pretty awful until I made it monospace too sadly.
Cheers!