Yikes. Um, well, take this text as an example:
With current IDEs, if your cursor starts at point [1] and you tap the down-arrow with
the intention of moving to point [2], your cursor will jump left and right on it's way
down, sticking to the text, so to speak.
I was brought up programming using emacs on Unix and Qbasic on pc. THEY had virtual
whitespace. It was heaven. The cursor went exactly where I wanted it to go. If you hit
down, the cursor went to the space below it, nowhere else!
Because 'magnatized text' is the standard nowadays, no one here knows what the hell
they're missing.
text[1]texttext texttexttexttexttext texttexttexttext text texttext texttext text[2]text
With current IDEs, if your cursor starts at point [1] and you tap the down-arrow with
the intention of moving to point [2], your cursor will jump left and right on it's way
down, sticking to the text, so to speak.
I was brought up programming using emacs on Unix and Qbasic on pc. THEY had virtual
whitespace. It was heaven. The cursor went exactly where I wanted it to go. If you hit
down, the cursor went to the space below it, nowhere else!
Because 'magnatized text' is the standard nowadays, no one here knows what the hell
they're missing.