On 12/10/2013 09:30, William Robertson wrote: > For anyone coming to XP from Mac, first thing to do is enable font smoothing: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306527 (I know not everyone is crazy about > antialiasing, but as it's on by default on Mac it's worth a shot on XP). > Then switch to the Silver desktop theme: > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-xp/help/setup/personalize-windows-xp > Then in gVim, change the font to Consolas. > > I use Windows and some Linux at work and a Mac at home, and I love being able > to use the same editor on all of them with only minor differences (e.g. > Ctrl-Q is the control key for vertical selection and character escape because > Ctrl-V is Paste in Windows - there are a bunch of settings around this in Vim > so you should be able to get it how you like it.) > > http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/gui_w32.html
Thanks, that is extremely useful. I feel really rather dumb for not looking in Vim's own help files in the first place. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using Arch Linux, CentOS 5.9 & 6.4, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Spherical & That Damn Cat, OS X Snow Leopard & Tiger, Scientific Linux 6.4, Ubuntu Quantal & Raring GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
