On 02/11/13 20:58, Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2013-11-02, Tim Chase wrote:
On 2013-11-02 12:35, John Sonderson wrote:
On Windows 7 it is impossible to save the default Gvim font from
the Gvim program. Closing Gvim will cause it to completely forget
about all font settings, and it is not possible to set them in the
_vimrc file.

You need to either put it in your _gvimrc (which gets processed
after the GUI has started up) rather than your _vimrc (which gets
processed before the GUI has started up), or put it in an autocmd in
your _vimrc:

   autocmd GUIEnter * set guifont=YourFontSettingHere

that will fire once the GUI has started.

That will work, but I set the font for Windows in my ~/_vimrc, not
in a ~/_gvimrc and not from an autocommand, just

     set guifont=Courier_New:h10:cANSI

Regards,
Gary

Indeed, 'guifont' is one of those settings which are used only after the GUI starts but can be set before it does, and will be remembered until they are needed. On windows I would use ... :cDEFAULT though. :cANSI is IMHO needlessly limited and, taking it at face value, it conflicts with using any codepoint above U+007F, including not only non-Latin letters but even accented letters as used in practically every language other than English (and even in English, my Oxford's Dictionary lists some words with accented letters like garçon, cliché, risqué, øre, and more).

The 'guifont' setting has a number of different incompatible settings. If you only use Vim on Windows this is not of much concern to you, but there are at least two very different formats in current use on Linux, and there used to be one more. See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI


Best regards,
Tony.
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