Comments on: Is there some way to make the Terminal app more readable?

By: may

may — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:45:16 +0000

thanks! I did figure out how to change the fonts / sizes but it did something weird to all my non-monospaced fonts so I’m just using HelveticaMono :-( I guess I use Terminal for different reasons than most.

By: rajbot

rajbot — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:03:03 +0000

Also, have you figured out your font issue?

In Terminal.app, go to Preferences->Settings->Font, click ‘Change…’, and choose any font/size you want.. Even Ed!

By: rajbot

rajbot — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:46:34 +0000

non-monospace fonts are bad for programmers because it makes it hard to line things up throughout your source code.

var raj = 0x123 | 0x456;
var may = 0x567 & 0x789;

var raj = 0×123 | 0×456;
var may = 0×567 & 0×789;

By: may

may — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:25:09 +0000

thanks for the tip! why are non-monospaced fonts bad? anyways i think the option to control how text is displayed should be an option for people like me who are not programmers but still need to use the command line for checking stuff in / out, merging files, starting up rails, etc cause it gives me a horrible headache to look at undifferentiated text :-( a guy from apple told me it wasn't possible without some hackery... my friend kathryn showed me a roundabout way to make my command prompt pink which makes me a little happier :-) So now it looks like this I had to enter the following line in .bash_profile in my home directory export PS1="\[\033[3;35m\]\u@\h \w \[\033[0m\]\a"

By: rajbot

rajbot — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:23:18 +0000

Using a non-monospaced font for terminal would give most programmers a headache, I think.

Here is a tip that I snarfed from tracey: you can add a separator line above your command prompt. Helps keep things nice and tidy:

PS1=\e[4m____________________________________________________________________________\e[m\n     \@ \u@\h.us  \e[1m \w \e[m\n>