> -----Original Message----- > From: John Degen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 9:25 AM > To: victor NOAGBODJI; [email protected] > Subject: Re: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: victor NOAGBODJI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:06:56 PM > Subject: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows > > Hello all, > > I'm quite a newbie to Vim. I've been using it under ubuntu dapper. > With moria color plugin, the font was nice, easy to read. I > think it's the default system font of ubuntu or something... > > Now under windows xp. It's bold, hard to read. It's the > default system font. Now how can I change that to a nice > clean, easy to read font? > > thanks > > I like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (use :set > guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h14:cANSI) > > you can download the font at > > http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html >
I add the following to my vimrc file: " Change default FONT " Set personal font, here is a review of different ones: " http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/6/11739/5249 " Bitstream Vera Fonts, downloaded from: " http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ if has('win32') if filereadable(expand('$SystemRoot').'/fonts/Vera.ttf') " For normal 11 point font " set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h11:cANSI " For bold 11 point font set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h11:b:cANSI elseif filereadable(expand('$SystemRoot').'/fonts/Raize.fon') " Raize (12 pt bold) set guifont=Raize:h12:b:cANSI endif endif Since I have many machines I use my same installation of Vim on, not all of them have the fonts I want. This will only set the font if it exists on the machine, plus a second favourite (Raize). Does anyone know how to do the same thing in Ubuntu (or *nix in general)? I am not sure where the fonts get stored on a *nix system. Dave
