Hi, You could also set the gui font in some other file. I do it in ~/.vim/after/syntax/syncolor.vim
HTH, Moshe * Stewart Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020416 15:57]: > yes, it was being overridden by the system. I became root and struck > that from the init script. seems like a poor system default if I can't > set a font in .vimrc. > > thanks > > Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Did you go through all of the initialization scripts, to see if it's > >not overridden there? (To see what these scripts are do > > :help startup > >inside vim) > > > >Moshe > > > >* Stewart Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020408 21:46]: > > > >>I've just upgraded from RH 7.2 to Mandrake 8.2 and gvim/vimx is now > >>ignoring the "set guifont" directive in my .vimrc file. What's extremely > >>odd about this is that after vim is launched, I can manually issue the > >>command and it sets the font appropriately (yes, I've tried many many > >>different fonts). Something else seems to be taking precedent, but I > >>don't know where. > >> > >>thanks, > >> > >>stewart > >> > > > >
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