wanted: the ultimate font...
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hi folks, (maybe this is stuff for a new poll) I just want to know, what font do you use in your IDE. Staring 10 or more hours a day at a boringly courier new font doesn't satisfy me any longer ;-) Yes, I already tried that nice Verdana font, but hey, all my comments (...not so much, you know :-D) lost their formatting! Does anyone have the ultimate font for a programmers burned eyes? cYa, JayKay
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hi folks, (maybe this is stuff for a new poll) I just want to know, what font do you use in your IDE. Staring 10 or more hours a day at a boringly courier new font doesn't satisfy me any longer ;-) Yes, I already tried that nice Verdana font, but hey, all my comments (...not so much, you know :-D) lost their formatting! Does anyone have the ultimate font for a programmers burned eyes? cYa, JayKay
Hi - Try "Tahoma", mac users don't have it so make sure to account for that on websites. It's great for documents or IDEs though. --Marty
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hi folks, (maybe this is stuff for a new poll) I just want to know, what font do you use in your IDE. Staring 10 or more hours a day at a boringly courier new font doesn't satisfy me any longer ;-) Yes, I already tried that nice Verdana font, but hey, all my comments (...not so much, you know :-D) lost their formatting! Does anyone have the ultimate font for a programmers burned eyes? cYa, JayKay
Try changing the source window colors to white text on black. I use that (along with other color tweaks, like comments in light green instead of green, so they're easier to read on the back bkgnd) and it's way easier on my eyes. Tahoma's nice if you're reading, but you really have to use a fixed-width font for coding. --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/
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Try changing the source window colors to white text on black. I use that (along with other color tweaks, like comments in light green instead of green, so they're easier to read on the back bkgnd) and it's way easier on my eyes. Tahoma's nice if you're reading, but you really have to use a fixed-width font for coding. --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/
Only someone living in sunny California can use such morbid colors :-) Uwe Keim http://www.zeta-software.de
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Try changing the source window colors to white text on black. I use that (along with other color tweaks, like comments in light green instead of green, so they're easier to read on the back bkgnd) and it's way easier on my eyes. Tahoma's nice if you're reading, but you really have to use a fixed-width font for coding. --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/
I'm not keen on black backgrounds - esp when people do eye wrenching things like place yellow or red text on it. BUT - I guess some of us grew up with green text on a black background. Even so, and veering off topic - I do like to have my editors (VI, VC++) set to black text on a grey background. Seems to be easier on the eyes, esp late at night. cheers, Chris Maunder
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I'm not keen on black backgrounds - esp when people do eye wrenching things like place yellow or red text on it. BUT - I guess some of us grew up with green text on a black background. Even so, and veering off topic - I do like to have my editors (VI, VC++) set to black text on a grey background. Seems to be easier on the eyes, esp late at night. cheers, Chris Maunder
Why do people use vi? Its like trying to swim the English channel with no legs. Especially when better, multi window editors (even ones that have horrible vi modes in them - used to work with a guy that used Emacs, but crippled it by running it in vi mode.) are available? Stephen Kellett
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Why do people use vi? Its like trying to swim the English channel with no legs. Especially when better, multi window editors (even ones that have horrible vi modes in them - used to work with a guy that used Emacs, but crippled it by running it in vi mode.) are available? Stephen Kellett
:Why do people use vi? because i spent 5 years in college using it, so my fingers know it. here's a little contest: quick, how do you sort all of the lines in a file in DevStudio's editor? (A: you don't). in VI? ":%!sort". remove duplicate lines from the result of the above sort? (DevStudio is still stuck on that one, remember) in VI? ":%!uniq". VI wins this contest. -c
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Only someone living in sunny California can use such morbid colors :-) Uwe Keim http://www.zeta-software.de
And it also never drops below ~55 degrees F (~13 C for you metric fellows) here, even in the middle of winter. :-P --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/
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:Why do people use vi? because i spent 5 years in college using it, so my fingers know it. here's a little contest: quick, how do you sort all of the lines in a file in DevStudio's editor? (A: you don't). in VI? ":%!sort". remove duplicate lines from the result of the above sort? (DevStudio is still stuck on that one, remember) in VI? ":%!uniq". VI wins this contest. -c