On 21/12/08 06:45, Jesus Sanchez wrote:
> Hi there, last week I was spending a couple of hours coding
> and I wondered what kind of fonts are the "Pro's" favourites.
> After 8 hours in front of the screen my eyes hurt, and I thought
> people have suffered this issue before.
> I'm working on a really loaded OpenBSD machine and I
> try to keep things simple, without gvim, antialiased fonts
> and all that stuff, only an aterm window and Vim :) to keep
> the minimal CPU ussage.
>
> Despite the external factors as ambient light, CRT or LCD
> screen, the "dark on light" or "light on dark" theme dilema...
>
> what fonts do you think are better for long hour sessions?
>
> some of my favourite options are Courier-like fonts, buts
> lacks on the letter "o" , "l" and number "0" and "1". At the other
> side the "Terminus" font looks great, I recommend it.
>
> Thanks for reading :)
> -Jesus
Readability is essentially a subjective matter. The problem with a
terminal font is that it affects all programs run in that terminal the
same way, and you may have different requirements for the output of a
shell or (let's say) for editing CJK text.
Personally I use gvim, it doesn't seem to be particularly voracious of
CPU time ("top" usually shows firefox-bin and Xorg at the top of the
list, sorted by CPU%; gvim, and maybe 90% of the processes, are usually
at 0.0%).
I used to display my gvim text with the Lucida family of fonts (Lucida
Console on Windows, Lucida Typewriter on Linux) but since then I've
switched to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono which is less angular and equally
unambiguous qua 0/O 1/l/I etc.
In Console Vim (in either konsole or /dev/tty) I use whatever font the
terminal is using: if I want a fancy font (for CJK, maybe, or Arabic) I
fire up an additional gvim instance where I can tweak the 'guifont' any
which way I want.
About light vs. dark: I use black on white in gvim, black on light
yellow in konsole, light grey on black in /dev/tty.
Best regards,
Tony.
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