Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing

Re:Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing by throwaway290 on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:56AM (#33501719)

Writing programs by manipulating text is the actual limitation of the technology here, alignment is just a minor detail by comparison.

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Re:Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing by throw827474737 on Monday November 07, 2022 @02:47AM (#33502503)

That's often heard, but what's the alternative? So far every other alternative has been more limiting, not?

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Re:Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing by eru on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:35AM (#33504087)

There are some sane alternatives.

You can keep to mostly text, but give the editor more leeway in how to lay it out and make the code's structure more visible.

Some really simple options, that you might not even recognise as going beyond text: folding of block and go-to-definition.

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Re:Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing by throwaway290 on Monday November 07, 2022 @09:23AM (#33506103)

AST, GUI... The technology is not there yet.

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