Introducing Cobra

[David Brown]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:14:27AM -0800, Ralph Shumaker wrote:

> Come to think of it, does anyone know how I can modify the fonts that
> show up in gnome terminal and vim, and even the console while I'm at it,
> and any other fonts that are used by programs like firefox and
> thunderbird?  Come to think of it, I can't be the only one who has ever
> wanted such a thing.  Is anyone aware of fonts already so modified?

In vim,

   :set list

enables showing whitespace.

   :set listchars=tab:>-,trail:-

will show tabs as >---- and trailing whitespace as a hyphen.  You can use
the highlight for SpecialKey to set the coloring you would like for these
visible characters (e.g. to make them subtle).

With a UTF-8 terminal, you can set the listchars to any Unicode character
you have in your font, so you can probably find something nice and subtle.

Dave