Saluton Tony :)

Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> skribis:
> On 10/09/09 21:54, Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote: [...]
>> I'm not exactly a console person, but I like to do in the console
>> anything that is going to be more efficient done that way, and in my
>> case, that implies console vim versus gvim. I prefer console vim
>> because in my terminal emulator fonts are more readable than in gvim
>> and in
> [...]
>
> In Console Vim, you're limited to whatever fonts the emulator is
> using. In gvim, IIUC, you can use any monospaced fonts installed on
> your computer (the problem may be to find _which_ one of your umpteen
> zillion fonts is the one you need).

I may be wrong, but in my experience, gvim doesn't render the fonts
using antialiasing for example, so console vim looks much better than
gvim. Moreover, gvim has some problems that console vim doesn't have,
for example with the ":browse" command (I remember a discussion a time
ago regarding this), or with scrolling (which is much more slower in
gvim in my machine).

If gvim gave me some additional advantage I would investigate a bit more
about the fonts or any other problem, but I'm quite happy with console
vim so I don't have the motivation.

This said, last gvim I tested was the one shipped with Ubuntu, and not
the one I'm building now, so I don't know if I will test it again. The
only thing that I miss so far is the ability of using italic and bold
fonts, but just a little because italic fonts doesn't look good (some
characters appear "cut" at the right part because of the slant).

> You may have to proceed by trial and error, but I think that any font
> used by your console emulator can be used by gvim.

Usually I'm happy with DejaVu fonts (or Bitstream Vera, for that
matter), and although I've tested some others that looked good, none of
them are superior to DejaVu / Bitstream Vera. Finding the font for the
GUI is the easiest part ;)

-- 
Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado
Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net
It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen!

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