Paul wrote:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:21:57PM +0200, Nicolas Aggelidis wrote:
whats your opinion?
I prefer monospaced. Proportional looks untidy when you have a list of
similar lines together and the only difference is between then are a few
characters, which happen to change the length of those lines.
is there anyway to use some proportional fonts ,like Lucida Sans, in
gvim (windows/linux)?
Edit -> Select Font...
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Sure...ok, let's see...I have that font...
Edit -> Select Font...
Hmmm...seems like it isn't on my list of allowed fonts.
Wonder why that is? You'd think Lucida Sans unicode would work on MS Windows
where
it's a native font...hmmm...
Lets fire up linux...(*sound of 747 revving up...*)...and check my flaps,er
check my Cygwin X-server...yup...*check*....and gvim!...
Blink...there's the window...now try "Select font...". Ahhh.
Now there's the font I want...
Um...slight problem...it's double spaced and its NOT proportionally
space,
but it is displayable...hmmm...not very useful at double spaced height.
Maybe a better question would be something along the lines of
do you think it would be possible for vim to function as well as a 10 year old
copy of MS-Word when using a proportional font and allow one to edit a text
document with such?
Does that make the issue any more clear?
*bristling* at rocks being prepared for inevitably stoning...again...so
old.
Long live proportional fonts!!! So sad favorite editor doesn't have option
to allow...(I know, it would be nontrivial to support, as a move 'down' would mean
what? down to position on screen most likely, but it wouldn't mean you'd end up
on the same column on the line below as you were on the line above....
Quite a few nibble to overcome. Tabs would have to adapt to fixed
positions,
not fixed # of space equivalents. Might be doable in stages...dunno. I'm not
a 'xprt in vim internals. But it sure would make help vim retain its crown as
editor
of choice for many in years to come.
-law
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