Comments on: …and the Award for Best Programming Font Goes To… http://jonasboner.com/2007/01/11/and-the-award-for-best-programming-font-goes-to/ Down To The Bone Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Jonas http://jonasboner.com/2007/01/11/and-the-award-for-best-programming-font-goes-to/#comment-15916 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:12:47 +0000 http://jonasboner.com/2007/01/11/and-the-award-for-best-programming-font-goes-to/#comment-15916 <p>oktokie, the editor is TextMate: http://macromates.com/ great editor for Mac</p> oktokie, the editor is TextMate: http://macromates.com/ great editor for Mac

]]> by: oktokie http://jonasboner.com/2007/01/11/and-the-award-for-best-programming-font-goes-to/#comment-15912 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:27:15 +0000 http://jonasboner.com/2007/01/11/and-the-award-for-best-programming-font-goes-to/#comment-15912 <p>interesting screen shot. Which editor are you using? I like how brackets are marked next line number.</p> interesting screen shot. Which editor are you using? I like how brackets are marked next line number.

]]> by: Jonas http://jonasboner.com/2007/01/11/and-the-award-for-best-programming-font-goes-to/#comment-5300 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:25:55 +0000 http://jonasboner.com/2007/01/11/and-the-award-for-best-programming-font-goes-to/#comment-5300 <p>Hey Rick.</p> <p>24 pt? That is huge. I just tried it and can not fit more than between 60-70 characters on my laptop with the code browser open (MacBook Pro 15"). If I run 12 pt then I get about 140 characters with the code browser open on the left hand side => if I use 9 then I have room for another window (file browser, preview etc.)</p> <p>Do you have a 30" monitor? But if it works for you then great.</p> <p>/Jonas</p> Hey Rick.

24 pt? That is huge. I just tried it and can not fit more than between 60-70 characters on my laptop with the code browser open (MacBook Pro 15″). If I run 12 pt then I get about 140 characters with the code browser open on the left hand side => if I use 9 then I have room for another window (file browser, preview etc.)

Do you have a 30″ monitor? But if it works for you then great.

/Jonas

]]> by: Rick Evans http://jonasboner.com/2007/01/11/and-the-award-for-best-programming-font-goes-to/#comment-5299 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:07:45 +0000 http://jonasboner.com/2007/01/11/and-the-award-for-best-programming-font-goes-to/#comment-5299 <p>Shucks, you thought you were getting old at 12pt?</p> <p>I use Monospaced... but at 24pt. At 24pt, it is really easy to tell the difference between an 0 and an O, a 1 and l, etc.</p> <p>But really, 9pt? What is the benefit of 9pt? Is it the (dubious) value of being able to have lines of code that stretch to 400 characters in length but still fit on the screen? 120 characters at 24pt fits nicely on my screen, and lines ~120 characters long kinda feels right in terms of roughly how much info I can absorb from a single line of code at any one time before having to refactor variable names or break up the constituent parts of the line.</p> Shucks, you thought you were getting old at 12pt?

I use Monospaced… but at 24pt. At 24pt, it is really easy to tell the difference between an 0 and an O, a 1 and l, etc.

But really, 9pt? What is the benefit of 9pt? Is it the (dubious) value of being able to have lines of code that stretch to 400 characters in length but still fit on the screen? 120 characters at 24pt fits nicely on my screen, and lines ~120 characters long kinda feels right in terms of roughly how much info I can absorb from a single line of code at any one time before having to refactor variable names or break up the constituent parts of the line.

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