Tim Chase wrote:
for my font plug in I need to know which OS I am running on to
choose an appropriate font. Now when Sun Solaris where added
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sure it would - but it also means calling an external program at
startup. Well, if all else fails...
Well, additionally, the 'guifont' option can take a comma-separated list
of font-names. Thus, you could have it try something like
if has('unix')
set guifont=AntialiasedFontILike,FallbackFont
Tony has a common bit of useful script that he drops on the list
occasionally when this topic comes up (which you can find at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim/40125
) which does some platform-sniffing to set the font accordingly. A
combination of these ideas should hopefully get you closer to having the
font of your dreams. :)
-tim
My tip has been written up as a vim-online tip ("Setting the font in the GUI")
and, since-then, it has also made it to the Vim help at ":help
setting-guifont" except that the latter will set the font incorrectly in kvim,
and not set it at all on non-x11 systems other than W32 (e.g. Macintosh
versions with Carbon GUI).
Best regards,
Tony.
