Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed3.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!not-for-mail From: Anssi Saari Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won. Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:28:49 +0300 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pepper.modeemi.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.cc.tut.fi 1311006529 18888 2001:708:310:3430:203:baff:fe7d:42dd (18 Jul 2011 16:28:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tut.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:28:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NMub2VsFGEFPhE3Jf9dU1QMhrjc= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:9812 Thorsten Kampe writes: > The "perfect programming font" is just the one that looks so good that > you would also use it for writing email. Dejavu Sans Mono is pretty > good. Consolas looks also looks good but it is Windows only. How is Consolas Windows only? Not that I'd put it in my Windows-free systems, but I don't see why you couldn't? Everything uses TrueType fonts now. I use a font called Dina on this laptop in Emacs. Not pretty but very readable, has a slashed zero and the wide characters are clearly separated, so something like www looks like three ws, not a block of triangle wave.