A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
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.
P.S. After looking at the article, I notice that I later found out that the
kvim 'guifont' mentioned there was inappropriate. kvim is obsolete anyway, but
some versions are still in circulation, such as the 6.2.14 that comes with
SuSE Linux 9.3. If you need the (longish) kvim value, check the comments of
the vim-online tip, or drop me an email.
Best regards,
Tony.
