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I feel like proportional fonts make sense for me when coding in lisps. Not sure why.


I really wonder why, because alignment is one of the core things in lisp code style. Take this trivial snippet:

    (let ((foo 1)
          (bar 2))
      (print foo)
      (print bar))
The (print ...) statements should just be indented two spaces, so you don't need a monospaced font for that, but the bindings should be aligned... "(let (" in a proportional font generally won't have the same width as 6 spaces.

How do you deal with this?




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