This is an Emacs carnival post for 2026.
Sometimes it’s the little things that make a substantial cumulative impact on computing satisfaction.
I’ve set up both my terminal emulator and graphical Emacs with added line spacing. Absolute bliss. It’s like a quiet, undisturbed pond at dusk. Less busy, less rough.
Seeing is believing. On the left is with (setq-default line-spacing .15) as
found in my configuration.org, the right is the default (nil).
Figure 1: Emacs line spacing
For terminal emulation within Emacs, I occasionally use vterm and ansi-term.
Both of these Emacs-based terminal emulators respect the above line-spacing
variable.
For the rest of the time, I use Alacritty with the following in my alacritty.toml:
[font.offset]
y = 4
[font.glyph_offset]
y = 2
Once more, seeing is believing. Left is using the above font offsets, the right is standard line spacing.
Figure 2: Alacritty line spacing
Try increasing your line spacing. It might make your computing experience less adversarial and more humanist. Try it! 😸