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Titanic had paying customers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by jmorris on Saturday March 03 2018, @03:24AM (9 children)
List obviously composed by code monkeys who have only banged out Wordpress extensions, Java or some other lame crap like that on their Mac.
But real men code in Vim and use a nice readable monospaced font like Terminus. GVim is acceptable but makes others question your qualifications. Emacs if you are gay. Eclipse means you probably have warning hair and make "apps" to bilk idiots out of microtransactions. Visual Studio means you are a web developer or do Database frontends in VB and call yourself a programmer.
Yes I'm inciting a riot.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Saturday March 03 2018, @04:54AM (5 children)
Terminus is fine but what do you do if you want oblique/bold fonts?
(Score: 4, Funny) by jmorris on Saturday March 03 2018, @05:12AM (4 children)
What sort of show tunes singing fairy needs that for programming? Colorized is handy though. Anyway, you can bold terminus in a terminal window but it looks like it is just doublestriking.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:25AM (2 children)
Not just for programming for setting it for rxvt/xterm.
If terminus doublestrikes for bold, that's good enough. I still think anonymous-pro looks better :)
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday March 04 2018, @02:00AM (1 child)
I totally agree Terminus is an awesome font. Use it myself. And yes, I use it in vim in an xterm all the time. Emacs takes a second or so longer to start, so I use vim.
Italics and bold? Well, that's underline and doublestrike. And that's not near as important to me as the lack of a proportional font that looks good without hinting and antialiasing. Sure wish there was a proportional version of Terminus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @08:12AM
I personally use terminus, and I use the bold features extensively. started on 1024x768, and still using it now on a 3840x2160.
but i think the pixel aspect is crucial for it to work. whenever i need a TTF, I prefer Deja Vu Sans Mono (or the various identical fonts). and yes, sometimes i like to see a lot of code so i switch to Deja Vu Sans Mono and zoom out like crazy. the effect on the big screen is really cool.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday March 06 2018, @12:32PM
Damn, this is embarassing. I do use terminus and not anonymous pro. Something is wrong in my head, kindly forgive me.
Excerpts from my .Xresources:
URxvt.font: -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
URxvt.boldFont: -*-terminus-bold-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
URxvt.italicFont: -*-terminus-medium-o-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
URxvt.boldItalicFont: -*-terminus-bold-o-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
(Score: 2) by Tara Li on Tuesday March 06 2018, @04:55PM
Don't look at me, I use IBM 3270.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:11PM
Sigh. If only that were true... https://www.beckhoff.com/english/twincat/twincat-3-extended-automation-engineering.htm?id=1893323218933238 [beckhoff.com]
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:33AM
Yes I'm inciting a riot.
How? You only said "like Terminus", which gives people options to chime in with their own favourite monospace font (open mind and all that). The rest of your post is just truisms. Seems very accommodating to me.