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octacone wrote:

Proof;).png

Are you writing code with a variable width font?

Schol-R-LEA wrote:

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    I must not fear. 
    Fear is the mind-killer. 
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. 
    I will face my fear. 
    I will permit it to pass over me and through me. 
    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. 
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

From Frank Herbert's Dune, am I guessing right?

bzt wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote:

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    I must not fear. 
    Fear is the mind-killer. 
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. 
    I will face my fear. 
    I will permit it to pass over me and through me. 
    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. 
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

From Frank Herbert's Dune, am I guessing right?

Yep.

octacone wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote:

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    I must not fear. 
    Fear is the mind-killer. 
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. 
    I will face my fear. 
    I will permit it to pass over me and through me. 
    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. 
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Good for you. Happy April First!

The joke is on you. I wasn't joking.

Actually, I was just saying that to indicate that I was making a joke (about the 'faced my fear' part). Though your post did make me wonder.

matt11235 wrote:

octacone wrote:

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Are you writing code with a variable width font?

What's wrong with variable width fonts?

SpyderTL wrote:

matt11235 wrote:

octacone wrote:

Proof;).png

Are you writing code with a variable width font?

What's wrong with variable width fonts?

Use whatever font makes you happy, but I'm taking monospaced fonts with me to the grave. Hopefully they can write on my headstone with DejaVu Sans Mono.

Here is mine:

https://obiwac.wordpress.com/aqua-os/

SpyderTL wrote:

matt11235 wrote:

octacone wrote:

Proof;).png

Are you writing code with a variable width font?

What's wrong with variable width fonts?

The knock against using variable-width fonts for code is not so much a matter of 'wrong' as 'inconvenient' - it is harder to format code consistently if the glyphs don't line up in a meaningful and consistent way. With monospaced fonts, the letter forms always end up in columns which line up, and the formatting won't get trashed (too much) if you go from one monospaced font to another; the same isn't true anymore once kerning enters the picture. Still, you do you, I suppose.

Schol-R-LEA wrote:The knock against using variable-width fonts for code is not so much a matter of 'wrong' as 'inconvenient' - it is harder to format code consistently if the glyphs don't line up in a meaningful and consistent way. With monospaced fonts, the letter forms always end up in columns which line up, and the formatting won't get trashed (too much) if you go from one monospaced font to another; the same isn't true anymore once kerning enters the picture. Still, you do you, I suppose.

The argument for variable width fonts here is that you only really need to line up two things: the left edge, which is defined by spaces or tabs and thus works fine, and identical sets of characters (perhaps varying by something like an array index), which also works fine, especially with fonts whose digits are the same width (which many variable width fonts do).

I currently use monospace fonts, but I'd strongly consider a variable width font that made common programming symbols wider and more visible- brackets, punctuation, etc. Easier to read text that way.

Pedigree kernel + Debian userspace + Xnest on the system running QEMU.

I'm cheating a little bit by booting to single-user mode, mostly just to test the basics (e.g. xclock, xterm) before letting the userspace try and run gdm and its own X server.

Today, I finally achieved booting my OS on both my HP Pavilion dv7-2060ef and my Dell Vostro 3360 with an USB stick.
It's funny to notice that it boots with no problem on the Dell, but encounters a GPF on the HP...

sortie wrote:

Cool!

sortie wrote:

HOW. IN. THE. FREAKING. WORLD.

Sortie, you are awesome.