Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[Ken Goldman]

I personally like Lucida console bold, but everyone has their 
preference.  I agree that a fixed width font is preferable for code 
portability.

I limit my lines to ~100 characters so I can put two windows side by 
side.  If you have very wide lines, perhaps the issue is your coding 
style.  As with newspapers, narrower columns will be easier for your 
maintainer to read.

Rustom Mody wrote:
> How do you folk manage editing code?
>
> I find that with a fixed width font (courier) I run out of screen space
> And with a proportional font the indentation gets messed up because the 
> default space-width is too narrow.