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		jlgreco on Dec 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: St: Simple terminal implementation for X That's really not the Suckless way. It is hard to really describe in a nutshell, you should just check out their philosophy page: http://suckless.org/philosophy I guess the best way to describe it is they are along similar lines as the 'cat -v' folks.

kelnos on Jan 3, 2013 [–]

I get that using client-side fonts adds dependencies and complexity, but XLFDs are not "simple"... for the user, anyway.

I dunno. The Suckless guys may feel that simplicity of implementation is king; I believe that simplicity for the user is more important. Each to their own.

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