On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:57 AM, George V. Reilly wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Ron Aaron wrote: >> >> I am currently working on three OSes at the same time: Win32, Linux >> and Mac OS/X - and I am using the same vimrc settings on all three. >> Mostly the same, anyway. >> >> One area which causes problems is font handling. All three systems >> (GTK2 on Linux) have very similar font handling, but not similar >> enough to be easy to make work on all at once. >> >> ":help setting-guifont" illustrates this problem. Why not use the >> same fontspec on Win32, GTK and Mac OS/X? I propose that the spec: >> >> set guifont=Luxi_Mono:h13 >> >> be the 'canonical' font format for these systems; then only GTK2 >> support needs to be modified. If the font isn't found, then >> substitute spaces for the underscores and try again. It would make >> cross-platform vimrc files much easier to maintain.
But :h13 is only supported for win32, right? And what about the X11-motif gui, the photon gui, the athena gui? >> Further, it would be helpful to have a "getfontsize()" function to >> parallel "getfontname()". It would return the current font size being >> used. Currently, the "getfontname()" will not also return font size >> if e.g. "set gfn=Courier" is set (then "Courier" is returned, not >> "Courier:h12" or whatever). >> >> Also: "getfontname()" doesn't always work (Mac OS/X, anyway). After >> my gvim has started, "getfontname()" returns an empty string. >> >> It would also be "really nice" to allow a per-window font. That is, >> make 'gfn' a window-specific setting. That might not be too hard, but >> I don't know if Bram will agree to it. > > If you had Courier:h12 in one window and Monaco:h15 in another, how > would you reconcile the two grids? This wouldn't even be possible without changing the fact that vim's GUIs really just provide a kind of terminal emulator to run vim functionality in. > On a related note, it would be nice if it were possible to supply a > set of alternatives to guifont, as in CSS. GVim would work its way > down the list until it found one that was present on the system; e.g., > > :set > guifont=Consolas:h12,Monaco:h12,Andale_Mono:h13,Lucida_Console,Courier:h13 That exact example should work, shouldn't it? > And then maybe the Vim-supplied fallback value of guifont could be > changed to something pleasanter, especially on Windows, to, say > Consolas,Lucida Console,Terminal. Might be a reasonable change for the default systemwide vimrc? ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
