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> why people code on dark backgrounds

I do it mostly because staring at white background all day burns into my retinas.

> I've spent many hours trying to figure out how to convince Vim and/or OS X to lighten up on their font rendering

There was a system-wide anti-aliasing strength setting for OS X.

    defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2
I believe it's 0 to 3 but I can't check right now.


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