Tom.Thomson (2/25/2010)
paul.goldstraw (2/25/2010)
I would say fixed width makes it easier to indent your code since every character fits in a same size block. For me, that's the only reason, it's mere personal preference beyond that. Not sure if others have other reasons why?I'm not sure there are any fixed width fonts that let me use even a full range of eurpean latin-based alphabets, let alone Cyrillic and Arabic too, and certainly not Japanese, Chinese, Korean and various Indian alphabets. Since I have worked mostly in a fairly international environments, and want to work usually in Unicode, this tends to force me onto variable width fonts. Of course it then makes sense to use fixed width (measured in inches or metres or whatever) tabs, rather than letting tabs represent a number of characters from the margin.
I always use the "so-called"(?) fixed-width fonts in code and eschew tabs like the plague.
The latter is a klingon from an ancient Fortran compiler which would crash if it saw a tab anywhere EXCEPT as the very first character on a line. I still hate tabs in code as my colleagues will no doubt attest. 🙂
The only place where I use tabs is in word-processed documentation (where it *is* better).
Kelsey Thornton
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