Inconsistent space width across editors

Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I had a weird problem today when my perfectly indented code comments from Vi editor were looking like a mess in Geany.

The pound signs were all out of line though they look perfectly aligned when opened in Vi editor. Initially I thought that it was a problem with the tab settings in Geany. But after tweaking some of the tab settings did not produce any result, I noticed that spaces in Geany were having lesser width compared to other characters, which was the root of the problems. I found that the font that I was using in Geany was not fixed width. And for that I should use Mono variation of the fonts. So I changed the font setting in Edit > Preference > Interface > Fonts > Editor to below:

Opening large JSON files with Geany

Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A few days back at work I was trying to open a fairly large unformatted (a single line) JSON file generated through one of the junit tests. At first I tried to open it in Eclipse since my Eclipse JEE IDE contains an inbuilt JSON formatter but it ended in a disaster! So much so that I had to kill the Java process running Eclipse. Then I tried to open it using Mousepad, the default text editor that comes pre-installed with Xubuntu. It also failed and got hung. I even tried with Gedit but still no luck. I copied the file to a Windows machine and opened it using Notepad++. The online JSON formatters were able to prettify it, so I went on with it then. But the fact that I was not able to open it natively on my system was bugging me.

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Inconsistent space width across editors

Opening large JSON files with Geany