On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 20:15 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote: > Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > Dear list > > > > I had been developing by open xterm, maximize it, run vim in it. The > > benefit is it happen to be more than 160 columns wide, allow me to split > > vertically to edit two related programs each at 80-column width. > > > > It has 3 problems: > > I. sometimes vim in xterm stop responding suddenly, and never > > coming back, reason unknown; > > II. my color schema doesn't work because xterm support limited > > number of colors > > III. I prefer gvim for its menu. > > > > I'd like to select a small font for gvim so that I can maximize vim > > window and use two 80-column window inside of it without xterm. That way > > I need a font at 6 pixel wide. I cannot found such a font. in xfontsel I > > select 6 for pxlsz and only two fonts are available: "clean" and > > "fixed", both are two small to be readable at 6 pixel (then what font > > xterm is using that is readable even at 6 pixel??) and both are not > > selectable in gvim's choose font dialog. > > > > Can someone recommend me a 6-pixel-wide readable font (like the one used > > by default in xterm) and usable in gvim? Thanks in advance! > > > > P.S. maybe the best solution is to run at 1280 px wide screen with > > 8-pixel font, which is 160 column wide, but yet what I need is 161 > > column wide because there is one column used as separator:( > > > Have you looked at gvim, the x11 version of vi?
Here is the screenshot having run the x11 version of vi with really small readable font (in this case I used the commonly-found font "fixed"). It happen to be 81-column wide for left and right column. $ gvim -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/I/users/weiwu/gvim_two_columns.png If you are young and can read it, it's probably good to use it for development. With a 1280-pixel wide screen vim should be able to present two 80-column window with more readable font. > > -- > Joseph Loo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice http://www.realss.com +86 592 2091112 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
