Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.030 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.94; '*S*': 0.00; 'read.': 0.03; '[0]': 0.09; 'coding,': 0.09; 'seemed': 0.09; 'developer': 0.10; 'cc:addr :python-list': 0.11; 'strange,': 0.16; 'sender:addr:gmail.com': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'email addr:gmail.com>': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'switched': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; '>': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'tried': 0.27; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'easier': 0.31; 'something': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'useful': 0.36; 'skip:& 10': 0.38; 'stopped': 0.38; 'skip:& 20': 0.39; 'read': 0.60; 'simply': 0.61; 'july': 0.63; 'more': 0.64; 'to:addr:gmail.com': 0.65; 'day': 0.76; 'fonts': 0.84; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=Y5y5+C9F6yot0qYd35VxTJSEfF6+CSiqQHyVU6CYwq8=; b=yDAxX1jjQtpX2m++Yxa2c2Fw80rse2ngJr+p0buLLJ7dYEcD4+hNC9Ohcy5P8QeFDU XXrLXu8tozvOr3PamNB/xffIbBikXi9BxDOkbvMMO6lmL279uZaDV9SyIY+L9vfGUUFD aqaXYdonQftj6kkeVo9oO6y2tbC8jvzRvRFbc9rd0XslmbRrT2ExLroBK/58fsp+MvoN T+hBz+SwpMjXaTr2ReZtDyfecDA2o9efw4EfOowi4kswtW+sPob/3pGvmClJTV6C+UFV CkgTB9PgFG27HIPrfB9drj5M/G710mBW5xHo0uD11UAtzFPM3UAItTM8vwh7dUpqODje UnJA== X-Received: by 10.112.61.199 with SMTP id s7mr28107775lbr.53.1375206168286; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:42:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: <51F6C5F5.5020201@Gmail.com> <51f6e1d8$0$30000$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <51F6ED13.5010508@Gmail.com> From: Joshua Landau Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:42:08 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1dt3soiZqn4czWru3Or8gtFzbik Subject: Re: PEP8 79 char max To: Vito De Tullio Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1133d17a2759c204e2be23b4 Cc: python-list X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 58 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1375206170 news.xs4all.nl 15906 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:60221 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:51589 --001a1133d17a2759c204e2be23b4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 30 July 2013 18:08, Vito De Tullio wrote: > Ed Leafe wrote: > > > I had read about a developer who switched to using proportional fonts for > > coding, and somewhat skeptically, tried it out. After a day or so it > > stopped looking strange, and after a week it seemed so much easier to > > read. > > By my (limited) experience with proportional fonts, they can be useful only > with something like elastic tabstops[0]. But, as a general rule, I simply > found more "squared" to just use a fixed-width font. > Not if you give up on the whole "aligning" thing. > [0] http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ > --001a1133d17a2759c204e2be23b4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On 30 July 2013 18:08, Vito De Tullio &l= t;vito.detulli= o@gmail.com> wrote:
Ed Leafe wrote:

> I had read about a developer who switched to using proportional fonts = for
> coding, and somewhat skeptically, tried it out. After a day or so it > stopped looking strange, and after a week it seemed so much easier to<= br> > read.

By my (limited) experience with proportional fonts, they can be usefu= l only
with something like elastic tabstops[0]. But, as a general rule, I simply found more "squared" to just use a fixed-width font.

Not if you give up on the whole "aligning"= ; thing.
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[0] http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/
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