Tony Mechelynck wrote:
is there anyway to use some proportional fonts ,like Lucida Sans, in
gvim (windows/linux)?
I haven't yet read this whole thread, but it must first be understood
that Vim is just a text editor, not a fancy WISYSIG word processor.
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Tell me you are not grouping notepad and wordpad in the fancy
WISYSIG word processor categories?
OR...how is vim not a WISYSIG (what the heck?..that's not WYIWYG).
It's exactly a WITYG editor -- you get the text in whatever format I
type it in. Unformatted (like notepad), but in difficult to read
monospace font. Unlike notepad. This is beneficial, how? If you wanted
it to be read in monospace because of content, you could apply
a disclaimer that someone diagram looks best in monospace font, but
for most text, this isn't true -- and it would be more readable
in proportional font that the user can 'choose' (the user being the
person reading it) for whatever is most readable to them on their
equipment.
If someone found monospace font more readable, then could always select
it for their use.
But general features like 'smart tabs' that try to stop at physically
spaced tab-stops, rather than at N-character columns, have stops
that stop at computed 'X' positions based on the font in-use or a
settable default if not known. But in the GUI, the forward X-spacing
of the font would be known. Vim could still remain a column based editor,
it's just that each letter would internally take 1-10,000 columns depending
on it's dot-width. The display of intervening non-filled columns would
be suppressed. :-) Ahem! Cough!. Sorry...was thinking about a liberal
use of how columns could be interpreted...just in one of those weird
moods tonight...:-)
Best regards,
Tony.
Ditto, and with sympathies...
Linda :-)
(I really like VIM, I'm really not complaining...too much...I just
like proportional fonts alot more than I like monospace fonts.
My choices for proportional fonts are about 50-100 times as vast as
my choice for monospace ones...and the proportional ones really are
easier to read ...:-)
)
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