On Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:51:05 PM UTC-4, AndyHancock wrote: > I've got font increment key mappings such as: > > map <C-F6> :set guifont=Monospace\ 8<CR> > map <C-F7> :set guifont=Monospace\ 9<CR> > map <C-F8> :set guifont=Monospace\ 10<CR> > map <C-F9> :set guifont=Monospace\ 11<CR> > map <C-F10> :set guifont=Monospace\ 12<CR> > map <C-F11> :set guifont=Monospace\ 13<CR> > map <C-F12> :set guifont=Monospace\ 14<CR> > > Over the years, I've found that it can take countless hours to choose > good fonts, and it's also pretty important when you're staring and > many source files simultaneously. > > Lately, I've encountered puzzling behaviours in how gvim handles font > selections which could partially explain why font refinement takes such a > long time when I migrate my settings to a different PC or when I find that my > past font selections seem oddly unsatisfying, for some strange reason. > > The first is that when I use the GUI menu to select fonts (Edit->Select > Font), the list of font names seem to change based on factors that I > haven't been able to identify yet. That is, I could see a font name on > the list and later not see it. > > The second is that the exact same fonts (such as the ones above) look > different on different computers. That is, it will be sans serif on one > system and not another. Like a completely different font. I am pretty sure > that the font libraries are the same because I use the same cygwin x-windows > install packages. What might cause this?
P.S. I should clarify that it is exactly the same gvim version, since it's the same cygwin package. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
