After spending ages jumping around different terminal fonts (which to me are the same as programming fonts, as I use terminal editors) I finally found one years ago which hit all the right spots for me:
Not sure why, but this font really made my eyes less sore from all day screen staring, so it matters what font you have. I squint less, and I can even use the terminal without my glasses for extended periods of time when that font is set. It improved my productivity just because I could take fewer brakes and stare at the screen longer before my eyes got too tired.
Its come to the point where it bugs me if I don't have that font set up on the machine I am using, at least on virtual consoles (the real consoles, on a proper CRT monitor, are lovely to behold, but that is a rare thing to experience these days).
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(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday March 20 2018, @09:04PM
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I use vim 7.3 in an xterm on Slackware and I use whatever the default font in xterm is. At work we use eclipse officially but I still do my editing in vim in an xterm where I am about ten times as productive and it doesn't crash...
I've spent most of the last few years at work(s) in Cygwin emacs. After looking it up, apparently the font is Lucida Console 10pt. Some caps and small letters aren't the easiest to tell apart, though.
I've found usually I get used to whatever the program default is unless I change it right when I start using it after the install. Seem to remember the XFCE console defaults to some ugly font I'd usually change.
-- "Is that really true?"
"I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Wednesday March 14 2018, @10:41PM (2 children)
After spending ages jumping around different terminal fonts (which to me are the same as programming fonts, as I use terminal editors) I finally found one years ago which hit all the right spots for me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata [wikipedia.org]
Not sure why, but this font really made my eyes less sore from all day screen staring, so it matters what font you have. I squint less, and I can even use the terminal without my glasses for extended periods of time when that font is set. It improved my productivity just because I could take fewer brakes and stare at the screen longer before my eyes got too tired.
Its come to the point where it bugs me if I don't have that font set up on the machine I am using, at least on virtual consoles (the real consoles, on a proper CRT monitor, are lovely to behold, but that is a rare thing to experience these days).
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday March 20 2018, @09:04PM (1 child)
I use vim 7.3 in an xterm on Slackware and I use whatever the default font in xterm is. At work we use eclipse officially but I still do my editing in vim in an xterm where I am about ten times as productive and it doesn't crash...
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:10PM
I've spent most of the last few years at work(s) in Cygwin emacs. After looking it up, apparently the font is Lucida Console 10pt. Some caps and small letters aren't the easiest to tell apart, though.
I've found usually I get used to whatever the program default is unless I change it right when I start using it after the install. Seem to remember the XFCE console defaults to some ugly font I'd usually change.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"