Comment by eequah9L

I was using proportional fonts for a couple weeks. A problem I ran into was that in coding styles that I typically work with, you need to align stuff with spaces to match some artifact on a previous line (e.g. an opening paren of a function call). At that point you pretty much need the space to be as wide as any non-whitespace character that might appear there, otherwise things end up looking wrong. This is what basically killed it for me. a) I don't like how it looks. And b), I don't want to have patches bounced over formatting trivia that I don't notice.

(Edit: typos.)