Re: Re: What font/size do you use for programming?

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Philip Thompson <philthathril@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jul 10, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Omar Noppe wrote: >> >>> Is there any reason to pick a black background en white fonts in your >>> editor (for example writability)? >> >> I think a black background is much easier on the eyes.... > > I use a big font on a black background because it doesn't strain my > eyes as much. I started out with Monaco 9pt (or bitstream vera sans > mono 9pt on linux) on white. Slowly though I kept getting more > frequent headaches. Now I use black with big fonts and I'm fine. I > have really good vision and all that, but just hours of coding will > get to me. > > As a side bonus, using a bigger font also helps me adhere to wrapping > at the 80 character margin too. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Consolas 14pt editplus on server 2008 -- Regards, Wang Yi