> Currently the default font for MacVim is DejaVu Sans Mono which is > located inside the MacVim.app bundle. Initially I added this font > because the standard OS X monospaced font at the time (Monaco) did not > have very good font variations (e.g. no bold or italic). As of OS X > 10.6 the default font (Menlo) does include these variations so I was > thinking of ditching DejaVu in favor of Menlo. This has the following > advantages: > > + Startup is faster (about 0.5 seconds the first time MacVim starts) > + MacVim.app bundle becomes about 2Mb smaller > > I don't know if there are any major disadvantages (perhaps DejaVu has > better glyph coverage?) so I'd like to ask for some feedback before I > make this change. (Note that anybody who wants to keep using DejaVu > can simply download the font and install it on their system since the > font is free.)
I'm still on 10.5 on some of my machines, and according to http://update.omnigroup.com/ so are 20-30% of people. Maybe wait a few months (until 10.7?) with this? Nico -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
