The picture above shows a selected area with two spaces. I am wondering why this is the default setting? Shouldn’t one space equal to one letter approximately?
I used to disable tab indent and use 2 spaces indent instead. This issue let my imported markdown looking weird.
What I’m trying to do
I have configured the font to monospace family, so this is not a real road-block. But I just wanna know the motivation for this kind of weird design.
I think my question can be rephrased in other word:
Why don’t the default setting use monospace since it generally looks better in a markdown editor?
To me, this default setting caused my markdown looking much uglier than monospace. By using monospace font, I usually spent >90% time in markdown editor mode when I edited things in github and my previous notes app.
My opinion is from personal 6+ years markdown-based note app experience. People might disagree though.
Interesting. I’ve been as close to all-plain-text (and mostly markdown or multimarkdown) as I can for a number of years, and I’ve never wanted monospace for more than code blocks.
I’ll have to see how it works if I did use monospace — who knows, maybe I’ll prefer it!
Either way: this exchange is yet another bit of evidence for the versatility and many possible approaches that md offers.
