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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by marmaduke on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @09:54PM (#12905761)
There are other mono fonts with italic variants. An issue is getting an editor to italicize as part of a highlighting scheme. I've only seen this in Mac vim and intellij but ouldnt be interested to hear about others especially in terminal
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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by Zyst on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:37AM (#12906399)
VS Code has support for it on a per-theme basis. I am currently using the Atom One Dark theme on VS Code, and Operator Mono, it does work:

https://puu.sh/sbUti/6022c0afb0.png

Above being a random screenshot from a project laying around.

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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by CaRDiaK on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @02:27AM (#12907112)
I haven't found how to persist those italic settings. I can use the inspector and set them, but as soon as I close the app I loose them.
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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by Zyst on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:33AM (#12910909)
As I mentioned, it's on a per-theme basis.

Try installing 10-15 themes, and then trying them one by one. Some will have italic comments, some won't.

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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by pshposh on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @10:43PM (#12905896)
I use Source Insight at work for C code and it can highlight syntax further than many editors I've used. You can specify bold, italic, font, size, colors, for every different token.

I think it's Windows only though.

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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by kps on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:29PM (#12906052)
Terminal vim handles italics, assuming the terminal does.
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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by marmaduke on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:47AM (#12906478)
Right, but what terminals do that?
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Re:Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono by kps on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:15PM (#12912178)
I use mlterm, which aside from italics and 24-bit-color support, has the additional advantage for vim that you can configure the Alt-key prefix away from ESC and have a longer timeout.
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