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JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers
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Request: Group 3 digits together to improve readability of large integer numbers #435

Closed DerDan closed 3 years ago

DerDan commented 3 years ago

instead of showing numbers like: 2021-05-03_15h04_37

it would be better to read numbers in this form: 2021-05-03_15h04_37_grouped (modified with a painting tool, same width)

With every thousand separators, the right digit is moved to the left and the left digit to the right. to build a small visual gap between each group.

auduchinok commented 3 years ago

It might hurt readability in places where numbers represent some codes/identifiers instead of ordinary numbers, or when, say, they are grouped by 4/8 digits. Some programming languages allow adding _ inside numeric literals for the grouping, it's probably a better way to have such grouping where needed.

philippnurullin commented 3 years ago

Same problem https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/issues/182

DerDan commented 3 years ago

yes, my suggestion is a duplicate of #182, sorry