I use Acme with three columns (fullscreen) and the default fonts on my
Macbook Pro 15" retina with the maximum "scaled resolution" (looks
like 1920x1200). IMHO it's perfect.

Regards.
q

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:02 AM, marius a. eriksen <marius@monkey.org> wrote:
>> I use a 13” rMBP at the highest resolution setting. I run acme with 3 columns (though the leftmost column is a shrunk column that’s really only useful for directory browsing).
>>
>> The only annoyance is that I regularly connect to an external display, which requires me to restart acme. Instead of messing with -f, -F flags, I make dumps (which store font settings). I restart acme with
>>
>>         acme -l lodpi.dump
>>         acme -l hidpi.dump
>>
>> depending on where I am.
>
> I do something similar myself:
>
> % whatis D
> fn D { acme -l $home/lib/acme/$* }
>
> As far as screen real-estate goes I have a similar function which sets
> up a base set of windows in rio:
>
> % whatis W
> fn W { . $home/lib/rio/$* }
>
> lib/rio contains files created via wloc. These are really small
> things, but speeds login considerably on my laptop, especially since I
> use a couple of different monitors with different resolutions.
>
> (I've also dealt with the sizing issue by getting used to smaller
> fonts and buying bigger monitors. vera/unicode.12.font and
> veramo/unicode.12.font work very well for me)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
>