Re: g?vim and bizarre font request.

2007-01-04 Thread Tim Chase
(* n (factorial (- n 1) should mean it takes about 650ms for someone to see there are 5 close parentheses at the end. It takes me about 3 seconds of concious effort to reach that number. Moving the cursor over them is one option, but it is slower. I think another might be if I can

Re: g?vim and bizarre font request.

2007-01-04 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Tim Chase wrote: (* n (factorial (- n 1) [3 secs for me to count, moving cursor over is slower] find a font and a means of displaying it which slightly disturbs the spacing, position or shape of successive parentheses, so the pattern is [...]

Re: g?vim and bizarre font request.

2007-01-04 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
Hugh Sasse wrote: I am interested in exploring Lisp before too long. However, I have a physical problem with the parentheses. You may find rainbow.vim helpful; see http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#RAINBOW It colorizes brackets [] {} () based on nesting level. Regards,

Re: g?vim and bizarre font request.

2007-01-04 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
Hugh Sasse wrote: I am interested in exploring Lisp before too long. However, I have a physical problem with the parentheses. My nystagmus means that just outside the subitizing range my time to count parentheses increases dramatically. According to wikipedia it should increase at roughly

Re: g?vim and bizarre font request.

2007-01-04 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Hugh Sasse wrote: I am interested in exploring Lisp before too long. However, I have a physical problem with the parentheses. You may find rainbow.vim helpful; see http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#RAINBOW that

Re: g?vim and bizarre font request.

2007-01-04 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
Hugh Sasse wrote: On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Hugh Sasse wrote: I am interested in exploring Lisp before too long. However, I have a physical problem with the parentheses. You may find rainbow.vim helpful; see

Re: g?vim and bizarre font request.

2007-01-04 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Hugh Sasse wrote: On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Hugh Sasse wrote: I am interested in exploring Lisp before too long. However, I have a physical problem with the parentheses.