Ralph Shumaker wrote:
SJS wrote:
The eye *believes* whitespace, but it's also not very good at it. It's
okay at determining that yeah, verily, there *is* whitespace, but it's
not very good at determining how much. For very small programs, that's
okay; but these languages are no longer being used solely for small
programs.
I never understood why spaces and tabs cannot be displayed with
something visible.
Because a tab is not a printing character, it is a *control* character,
and its semantics are poorly defined.
Tab is *not* just n spaces. It is "move the head/platen to tab stop"
and "tab stop" is defined by the end user.
I like when the 0 (zero) is made distinctive with a dot in the middle.
I never liked that 0 looks so similar to O and in some places are almost
indistinguishable from one another. The 1 and the l (and sometimes I)
are almost as bad. There is no reason why they have to look that much
alike.
What you want is called a programming font.
http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts
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?
No *font* modification is capable of delivering that behavior.
-a
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