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Nice fonts for Emacs

If you have been using Linux, I think you must have been frusturated with the lack of good fonts when using Emacs. It gets very hard to distinguish between "l" (the letter l) and 1 (number 1) and between comma and semicolon when programming or examining large amount of code.

The Bitstream Inc have done an excellent work in producing and relesaing under a very liberal license, the bitstream-vera fonts. These fonts are really beautiful and easy to read. To use these fonts with your emacs, just add this line to your ~/.Xdefaults file

 Emacs*font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*--*-100-*--*--*- 

Of course, you need to have the bitstream-vera fonts installed on your Linux box

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    • Posted byFred Chu
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    can you send me a screenshot with emacs for me ? my bitstream vera sans mono are not nice.
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  1. I have mailed the screenshot to the email id you left in the comment
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