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A comment on Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding? by eviks on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:39PM (#36927276)
If only there were a modern code editor that supported variable-width tabs that would maintain vertical alignment with variable-width fonts...
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding? by seanmcdirmid on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:00AM (#36927685)
With auto formatters that automate indenting (and disallow custom indenting), I don’t think that really matter anymore.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding? by eviks on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:05AM (#36929939)
bad tools can't eliminate the import of good formatting
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