Input, a customizable font family (sans, serif, mono) for code

I almost complained about having non-monospaced fonts as a default on the linked page for 'coding', until I started reading this page where they explain the reasons. Still, mono-spaced is much easier for an IDE to interpret and my brain thinks me like it more.

I even did an HN search, but I didn't think to look for "fonts" instead of "font".

Strangely, it seems the HN search will exact match on the initial search and then prefix match after that. Compare URLs:

  Initial search
  https://hn.algolia.com/?q=input%20font#!/story/forever/0/input%20font

  Add an 's' then remove it
  https://hn.algolia.com/?q=input%20font#!/story/forever/prefix/0/input%20font

Same search term shows in the box, but the results are different.

I've submitted an issue on GitHub to address this: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/41

Elastic Tabstops[1] are the solution, but support is too patchy, and getting a team to agree on tabs vs spaces for line indents is hard enough, without then getting them to all follow elastic tab practices for laying out aligned content.

[1] http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/

Yeah it looked ok to me. Looks like it was designed for python. On my clojure files the parens/brackets get lost. Granted editors mostly make parens easy but i still have to be able to scan for them.