Introducing Cobra

[David Brown]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:29:35PM -0800, Ralph Shumaker wrote:

>> What you want is called a programming font.
>> http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts

What's sad is that I find all of them very hard to read.  I guess there
must still be people that think non-antialiased fonts are readable (or had
experience with bad anti-aliasing algorithms).

I've been using DejaVu Mono for programming.  It's 0 and O, l and 1 are
quite distinct.

When I was younger, I could handle much smaller fonts.  It's either that,
or just that monitors have gotten a lot higher in resolution.

> In some situations, I would even like to see something visual for 
> end-of-line (particularly in vim and cat).  This is not that big of an 
> issue tho because I can use reg ex " $" or "    $".  But it would still be 
> nice to see it visually.

'cat' has numerous options to show tabs, and end of line markers.

In vim, setting 'list' mode (:set list) enables showing some non-printing
characters.  You can set what with 'set listchars ...'.  Some useful
options:

   :set listchars=tab:>-

shows tabs as a '>' followed by hyphens.

If you're setup for Unicode, you can make it look even nicer, e.g.:

   :set listchars=tab:‣·

(those last to characters are a small right triangle and a small
middle-dot.  You type the first in vim as ^Vu2023 and the dot as ^Vu00b7).

Setting eol to unicode 2424 uses the little N/L character, which is clear
looking, but rather overly-visible.  It also has 'trail' to show trailing
spaces.

Dave