On Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 07:25:13 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 07:32:38PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > > > The current PSI works perfectly but I don't like the pale green prompt. > > > > > > Tried editing .bashrd , /ext/fprofile and /ext/bash.bashrc but no changes > > > to > > > the PSI definition had any effect > > > > You appear to be asking about the shell prompt. > > > > In bash, the shell prompt is defined in the PS1 variable, which stands > > for "Prompt String One (1)". The last character is the numeral 1, not > > the capital letter I. > > Might be time for a new font. I like Inconsolata, but l1I! > should never look similar, nor O0@ or S$.
I'll give a shout-out for Hack,¹ which I can't fault for use in xterms. Comparing xterm -geometry 80x25+0+0 -fa hack -fs 16 with xterm -geometry 80x25+0+0 -fa inconsolata -fs 18 (to make the sizes roughly the same), I find the inconsolata stroke width on the basic Roman alphabet is a little spindly. Other criticisms are that the stroke widths (and even the size) later in the table (eg 0x256–1312) are thicker or larger, and many single-width characters are slightly oversize and get truncated at the top & right (eg Ŵ at 0x372, Lj 456). Mixing fractions is ugly, too: ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞. The ‘’ quotes are pretty, though. Of course, these criticisms only apply to the implementation from fonts-inconsolata, rendered on xterms, as compared with fonts-hack. I don't know whether they arise because the font is a work in progress, and the implementation hasn't yet caught up: eg, the capitals with diacriticals look fine in the sample off the web at: https://levien.com/type/myfonts/textest.pdf ¹ I first saw Hack mentioned by Gene in May 2016, thanks. Cheers, David.
