On 03/12/08 23:02, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
> 2008/12/3 Matt Wozniski<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm having problem with setting the font. In the end of this mail you
>>> can se my vim version. Using the gtk-gnome-gui and trying to set the
>>> font in my .vimrc like this:
>>> set guifont=clean:12
>>> vim do not find my font clean and sets it to size 12. Using
>>> set guifont=clean\ 12
>>> it all works fine. This is not the way it should be according to
>>> documentation (:he guifont) that states that a ":" should work instead of
>>> "\ ".
>> I see nothing that says that at :help 'guifont' ... In :help
>> 'guifont', I see only 12 lines that contain a colon:
>>
>> |option-backslash|. For example:>
>> :set guifont=Screen15,\ 7x13,font\\,with\\,commas
>> For Win32, GTK, Mac OS and Photon:>
>> :set guifont=*
>> For the GTK+ 2 GUI the font name looks like this:>
>> :set guifont=Andale\ Mono\ 11
>> For Mac OSX you can use something like this:>
>> :set guifont=Monaco:h10
>> width). An exception is GTK 2: all fonts are accepted, but
>> - takes these options in the font name:
>> cXX - character set XX. Valid charsets are: ANSI, ARABIC,
>> Use a ':' to separate the options.
>> - Examples:>
>> :set guifont=courier_new:h12:w5:b:cRUSSIAN
>> :set guifont=Andale_Mono:h7.5:w4.5
>>
>> As far as I can see, colons are only valid for separating font options
>> from the font name, and that's only supported on OS X and Win32... Do
>> you see something different?
>
> Thank you for your answear. There was a few things in the help that cleary
> confused me. After getting some help and explanations by the kind people in
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've localized the "errors":
>
> * The guifont arguments are different on different platforms (I was told that
> this is because of different font implementations, I think vim should have
> one
> way to set its fonts and there after translate it to the platform standard.
> The other people at #vim did not. I'm not completely shure about why yet,
> but
> I guess they are right and I'm wrong in this matter.
> * The bullet list and the overall indentation makes it unclear where the WIN32
> stuff ends and the general stuff continues. This is also not a bug but a
> misreading by me.
>
> Med vänliga hälsningar
> iveqy
For details about the five incompatible 'guifont' formats and how to set
the font even if you don't know what format your current gvim requires, see
http://vim.wikia.org/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI
Best regards,
Tony.
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