On 5 February 2010 08:20, Linda A W <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:21:57PM +0200, Nicolas Aggelidis wrote: > > > > > > whats your opinion?
<nag> Repeat the question in the body of your mail. </nag> > > 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. That's a very specific situation. I think both have their place. > > > is there anyway to use some proportional fonts ,like > > > Lucida Sans, in gvim (windows/linux)? > > > > Edit -> Select Font... > > ---- > 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... Hands up who hasn't tried that before. > 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... I really, really don't want to type `lol' in a technical mailing list but I just can't help myself! You do realise you are posting humour to the vim mailing list? Have you done your pre-flight sanity checks? > 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? Now you're talking! > *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.... > > [...] Sam and acme use proportional fonts, as does much Plan9 stuff. But neither are quite like vim. Worth checking out though. Sentences getting shorter. And shorter. Proportional fonts are nice, but I'm not sure that they're nice enough to be worth the effort, such as the problems which you mention above. And longer again. --Antony -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
