Introducing Cobra

[Ralph Shumaker]

David Brown wrote:
> 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).

The coloring is already subtle (deep dark blue).  How do I set it so that:
:set list
:set listchars=tab:>-,trail:-
are always on unless I want to turn them off?  (And what is the simplest 
way to turn them off?  :set nolist?)

>
> 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.

All tabs to varying lengths of ">" to ">------" (in dark blue) and 
trailing spaces as dark blue ASCII 216 (or maybe just "X") would be 
nice.  If color is ever in conflict with something else (like comments), 
how do I change it?

>
> Dave 

Thanks.



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Ralph

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