Re: Better program than Putty?
On 2004-02-07, Paul Johnson penned:
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> Your tab-indented lines are over 80 columns...
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> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:01:30PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> >Open up mutt and look at the thread arrows. 8:o)
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>> *sigh* Fine, be that way.
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>> Yours: http://www.dmiyu.org/~grey/lucida.png
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>> Mine: http://www.dmiyu.org/~grey/courier.png
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> Yours is the only Windows installation that draws the high-ascii lines
> correctly in anything other than Lucida Console. WTF?
That screenshot of courier looks an awful lot like my own courier new
setup. I just double-checked; mutt threading renders just fine in
putty, with courier new. I'm running screen; dunno if that affects it.
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>> Why I don't use Lucidia: The x in exim-users is far too thin. The D
>> in Debian is smaller than the b in the same word. In fact capital
>> letters, in general, are smaller than in Courier and far less
>> distict. Certainly uglier in my opinion. This is especially seen in
>> the Cc of Lucidia versus Courier.
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> I like Lucida Console because it's the closest thing to an X font.
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Speaking of which, does anyone know how I can get some form of linux
terminal to look the most like putty? /duck
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monique
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