On 03/03/10 10:00, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I have been trying to move to GVIM from Kate, but as I prefer
proportional fonts I find the GVIM look to be to hard on my eyes. I
have been looking up and down for a decent font that does not look
outdated in GVIM yet has good differention betweel 0/O, I/l/1, and
other common confusions. Could someone please recommend a font!
Thanks!
Which font is best for you will depend on which fonts are insalled on
your computer, on which language (English? French? Turkish? Russian?
Greek? Hebrew? Arabic? Chinese? Japanese? North Korean?) most of your
editfiles are in, and ultimately on your taste, so no answer can be
absolute here: /de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum/ (which is
Latin for "one shouldn't argue over tastes and colours"), a choice of
font is necessarily subjective.
This said, for Latin-alphabet languages I use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,
which is similar but IMHO slightly better-looking than Dejavu Sans Mono;
like DejaVu, it has clearly different glyphs for the digit 0 (zero) and
the letter O (as in Oscar), for the digit 1 (one), the capital letter I
(as in India) and the small letter l (lowercase L as in Lima), etc. For
Arabic I use Courier New (monospaced fonts don't look nice in Arabic, so
I have to settle for one with clearly recognizable glyphs even if it is
ugly) and for CJK scripts maybe some font like FZFangSong or FZKaiTi;
for multilingual files (such as
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/index.htm ) I of course use a
font corresponding to the part of the file that I'm currently editing.
These, however, are my choices, they may or may not be right for you.
If you have a gvim version which allows selecting a font by means of a
menu, including but not limited to gvim for Windows and gvim with GTK2
GUI, try
:set gfn=*
to see all installed fonts which gvim will accept to set. If you see one
that looks nice, try it on several of your files before you decide to
write the setting into your vimrc or gvimrc, because it may look less
nice in "real" conditions than on the example shown in the font chooser.
If you don't see any font which looks better than the one you're already
using, you can still cancel the dialog by hitting Esc or clicking Cancel.
See also http://vim.wikia.org/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI
Best regards,
Tony.
--
If you took all the students that felt asleep in class and laid them
end to end, they'd be a lot more comfortable.
-- "Graffiti in the Big Ten"
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