Font handling issues/suggestions/bugs

2009-04-02 Fir de Conversatie Ron Aaron
I am currently working on three OSes at the same time: Win32, Linux and Mac OS/X - and I am using the same vimrc settings on all three. Mostly the same, anyway. One area which causes problems is font handling. All three systems (GTK2 on Linux) have very similar font handling, but not similar

Re: Font handling issues/suggestions/bugs

2009-04-02 Fir de Conversatie Ron Aaron
guifont already does exactly this - see 'help guifont'. I've got gfn set to something like what you list already. Why do you need to reconcile two grids? Have different grids in different windows - what is the problem with that? On Apr 2, 9:57 am, George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org wrote: On

Re: Font handling issues/suggestions/bugs

2009-04-02 Fir de Conversatie Matt Wozniski
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:57 AM, George V. Reilly wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Ron Aaron wrote: I am currently working on three OSes at the same time: Win32, Linux and Mac OS/X - and I am using the same vimrc settings on all three. Mostly the same, anyway. One area which causes

Re: Font handling issues/suggestions/bugs

2009-04-02 Fir de Conversatie Ron Aaron
On Apr 2, 10:12 am, Matt Wozniski m...@drexel.edu wrote: But :h13 is only supported for win32, right?  And what about the X11-motif gui, the photon gui, the athena gui? Right - no change there, I said just Win32, Mac and GTK since they are similar in how they work. If you had

Re: Font handling issues/suggestions/bugs

2009-04-02 Fir de Conversatie Ron Aaron
guifont already does exactly this - see 'help guifont'. I've got gfn set to something like what you list already. Damn! I can't believe that I missed that all these years. vim is a veritable treasure-trove ;) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: Font handling issues/suggestions/bugs

2009-04-02 Fir de Conversatie Ben Fritz
On Apr 2, 2:25 am, George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org wrote: I think the assumption that the entire canvas is a grid of same-sized character cells is baked deep into Vim. (I'm using window in the Vim sense, as in :split.) Maybe it would be possible to have guifont local to a tab? There

Re: Font handling issues/suggestions/bugs

2009-04-02 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
On 02/04/09 09:25, George V. Reilly wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ron Aaronrambam...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 2, 9:57 am, George V. Reillygeo...@reilly.org wrote: [...] On a related note, it would be nice if it were possible to supply a set of alternatives to guifont, as in CSS.