Setting Up Thick Highlighting


Many are the productivity enhancers that I cannot do without. Right up there is thick highlighting. I fell in love with it the first time I saw it on Yuan's setup. How people get by without it is beyond me.

So, you're in a new PDK and you see the default skinny highlighting - hey, something's better than nothing, right? 😊

Fortunately, it's no biggie. 

In the CIW, dump out display resources using:

drDumpDrf("display.drf_all")

Then, get this script

https://github.com/ananthchellappa/SKILL/blob/main/perl/make_drf.pl

And run it from the directory in which you have that display.drf_all using

perl -w /path/to/make_drf.pl

And you'll see the other files. You can use CTRL-t if you have my bindkey setup to load the _thickLine DRF and you'll be in business.

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