out of space on /root

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Xen wrote:
> Little Girl schreef op 13-03-2017 23:45:
 
> > One of my biggest deal-breakers is a text editor that decides for
> > me what the beginning of a line is if the line contains an
> > indent. In some text editors, if I press the Home button, it goes
> > to the beginning of the line. In others, it goes to the beginning
> > of the indent. In my little world, a polite text editor will
> > offer a choice of which behavior you prefer.
> 
> jEdit I believe would first go to the first character, and then if
> you pressed home again it would go to the very first position.

Which may or may not annoy or bother some users, depending on the
preference they would prefer.

> jEdit also has very little spacing (about the same as my screenshot
> from the other post) but equally undisturbing to me because of the
> extra areas to the left of the text that ensure that the text does
> not fall off into a cliff.
> 
> Like I said, the balance of graphical elements is more important
> than the actual space itself, but in single-pane editors, I need to
> have a little bit of spacing so that the text does not sit directly
> next to the edge of the window,

And I'm the exact opposite, needing the characters to snug up to the
edge with no white space unless I put it there. A good text editor
should make it possible for both of us to be happy with it.
 
> The spacing in Notepad is less than a character's width and yet I
> have had problems with it, and the border (in Windows 10) is just a
> thin blue line. But because of the Window shadow it stands out from
> the background and you just have no issue with it.
> 
> Now as you can see on this older screenshot:
> 
> http://www.xen.dds.nl/f/i/screenshots/kwrite-snapshot1.png
> 
> the vertical spacing is actually ZERO pixels. When I edited the
> margins it was just more agreeable to me:
> 
> http://www.xen.dds.nl/f/i/screenshots/kwrite-snapshot1_edited-margins.png

Of these two, I prefer the first one. With the second one, I'd
constantly be wondering if I'd put a space in accidentally.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.