Comments on: GTD and desktop workflow/setup, revisited

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:50:20 +0000

Unfortunately I don’t know of one, sorry I can’t assist you Ben.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:19:32 +0000

Hi Lee,

since you do like vim keybindings I was wondering what pdf-viewer you’re using. Is there (OS X) one (that can be made to be) a little like vim?

Thanks

By: trueno

trueno — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:26:38 +0000

Hi Lee,

What font is that you are using in your MacVim? It doesn’t look like Monaco, and it seems bold somehow!

Thanks

By: billy

billy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:40:26 +0000

@Lee, thank you for your fast response. I was searching for such a plugin since months…

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:05:58 +0000

@billy
Sure! The name of the plugin is NERD_Tree ( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658 ), you can check out this post also, which talks about by Vim config a bit more: http://writequit.org/blog/?p=195

Hope that helps

By: billy

billy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:01:53 +0000

Hi, could you tell me which vim plugin creates this directory tree?
Thanks

By: voltaic

voltaic — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:20:57 +0000

@Lee,
Thank you for your quick reply Lee. This took me a long time to figure out, so for the sake of other people looking for an answer to this obscure question I’ll post my findings here. I hope you don’t mind.

I’m using urxvt as my terminal emulator. It turns out fonts are rendered differently in X than in OSX (admittedly, OSX does a phenomenally better job at rendering fonts). So I found Monaco as a TTF and installed it. I adjusted the row spacing in urxvt, and tried various size and spacing combinations. No matter what I tried, though, the vertical bar “|” characters would not display contiguously; I always got dashed lines running along a column.

In the process of trying different things I found out that I don’t like the way Monaco looks on vanilla X — I assure you it doesn’t look as nice as it does on OSX. As I was about to give up, I started investigating how Unicode fonts are defined. I found some lists of Unicode characters and saw that Unicode defines a slew of random glyphs that one can use to display vertical lines. These are called “block elements.”

A few examples:

U+2588 ? Full block
U+2589 ? Left seven eights block
U+258A ? Left three quarters block
U+258B ? Left five eights block
U+258C ? Left half block
U+258D ? Left three eights block
U+258E ? Left one quarter block
U+258F ? Left one eighth block
U+2595 ? Right one eighth block

So in cmus I’m using U+2595 to display vertical lines with terminus as my font, and it looks great. Thank you for the inspiration.

See: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters)

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:21:11 +0000

@Voltaic
The font in the screenshot is Monaco, which is Mac OSX’s default fixed-width font. It’s available for download on the internet (just search for it). In the screenshot, those are “|”s, which are unbroken on some fonts and dashed on others.

By: voltaic

voltaic — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:19:36 +0000

Hello Lee,

I was wondering if you could tell me what font you were using in the screenshot showing cmus.

I see that in the library view you’re using the vertical bar character (pipe “|”) to create columns, which I think looks very nice. Sadly the fonts I have don’t render the pipe character as spanning the full height of the row. As a result I get dashed or broken lines instead of contiguous columns.

Is the font something proprietary to terminal.app?

-v

By: Joel Esler

Joel Esler — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:21:55 +0000

Hey Lee, Just wanted to let you know I put a new post up, and refined my method a little bit.

http://blog.joelesler.net/2008/06/gtd-in-leopard-with-mailapp-and-ical.html

Enjoy