<div dir="ltr">The acme text editor (from plan9) uses a variable width font by default. There are several advantages to this, including easier to read text and better horizontal width of text. Let us see how it interprets tabs:<div>
<br></div><div>"Tab intervals are set to the width of 4 (or the value of $tabstop) numeral zeros in the appropriate font."</div><div><br></div><div>So a tab is interpreted as the length of 4 '0' characters in the font you have chosen. This makes it impossible to align data by default, which frankly is quite liberating. You stop caring about such stuff[0].</div>
<div><br></div><div>The general rule is that you can't make assumptions about how people will render data in a file.</div><div><br></div><div>[0] I do have a monospaced font which I can switch to when it becomes necessary.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Loïc Hoguin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:essen@ninenines.eu" target="_blank">essen@ninenines.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Alignment is *impossible* with fonts with variable width characters. And a few editors have such a font by default. That's a good point. If you do alignment, then your code will look bad for some people.<div class="HOEnZb">
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On 02/11/2014 10:41 AM, Bengt Kleberg wrote:<br>
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Greetings,<br>
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I thought more of aligning difficulties given variable width characters<br>
and fixed width characters in different programs/tools. No tabs<br>
included.<br>
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bengt<br>
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On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 10:20 +0100, Anthony Ramine wrote:<br>
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No need to mix anything, it is hard to preserve in presence of any<br>
tab.<br>
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Anthony Ramine<br>
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Le 11 févr. 2014 à 07:16, Bengt Kleberg <<a href="mailto:bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com" target="_blank">bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com</a>> a<br>
écrit :<br>
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Greetings,<br>
<br>
Is it not difficult to preserve alignment when using both variable<br>
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width<br>
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characters and fixed width characters tools?<br>
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bengt<br>
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