* A.J.Mechelynck is quoted & my replies are inline below : > Troy Piggins wrote: > >I was looking for some helper commands for using something like > >'figlet' from within vim. > > > >Searched the vim scripts and closest I could find was the > >larlet.vim script http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1357 > > > >At present I have this in my .vimrc: > >map ,f :r!figlet > > > >I was wondering if anyone has something a little more advanced. > >Perhaps a font chooser? > > - Vim or gvim is meant to display exactly one character per character cell, > except in the case of "wide" East-Asian characters (which occupy two > character cells), combining characters (which do not occupy a distinct > character cell), nonprinting or invalid characters (which may be shown as > "^P" (two cells), "<fffe>" (six cells) etc.); and, of course, hard tabs > (which occupy between 1 and 'tabstop' character cells). There is no > provision for ASCII-art characters in Vim.
I understand that. Figlet is just arranging single chars into patterns that appear as large (multiple row/column) fonts - similar to ascii art. I know there is no provision for that directly in vim. But there are ways to make it easier to invoke. > - You can use figlet as a filter (see ":help filter"). It must of course be > present on your system (I have it in /usr/games/). Filter looks promising. If you have figlet on your system, how do you use it? Do you ever use it within vim? Do you have keys mapped, or scripts? > - A font chooser exists in the Windows, Mac, Photon, GTK1 and GTK2 versions > of gvim (for system fonts, be they bitmapped, TrueType, OpenType etc.): > > :set guifont=* [snip] By 'font', I meant figlet fonts. Sorry for not being clearer. So a way of choosing a selection of files in /usr/local/share/figlet/*.flf files to use as the '-f' option for figlet: :!figlet -f xxx.flf Thanks. -- Troy Piggins | http://piggo.com/~troy
