• redfellow
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    12 months ago

    Do you also get surprised when you backspace a tab and suddenly it removes more whitespace than 1 characters worth?

    Or did you learn it fast and really never think about it?

    I think it’s more a “getting used to” thing, that once learned, you don’t think about, but it makes things more readable.

    • Ephera
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      32 months ago

      Sure, I could get used to it. But it being more readable is not even true for me, because the thing I got used to instead, is that != is the unequals-operator. I see that much more often than .

      • redfellow
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        32 months ago

        Studies show that ligatures improve readability, but I acknowledge that it’s likely untrue for outliers.

        • Ephera
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          22 months ago

          For monospace fonts? I’ve heard of such research for proportional fonts, where ligatures definitely make sense to me. But yeah, I wouldn’t assume such research to automatically translate to monospace.