OK. Thank you for your help... I can put the command
set guifont=Lucida_Console:h12:cDEFAULT inside *C:\Users\JSonderson_gvimrc* and this font family and font size and character set is loaded each time I start gvim. ------------------------------ However a question still remains, that is, how come UTF-8 is not on the list of character sets? Isn't the character set something separate from the font anyways? What's the difference between character set and character encoding? How can I display the actual character set which is being used when I use the DEFAULT setting? Thanks. On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 2:19 PM, John Joche <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I can set the font from within gvim on Windows 7 with > :set guifont=Lucida\ Console > > but I can't seem to find where to set the font size. > Any ideas? > > Thanks. > > > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:45 AM, John Joche <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks for the clarification. >> >> Is there a place where I can find the string to substitute in place >> of YourFontSettingHere though? Do I need to enclose the string >> in double quotes or use some other quotation mechanism? I >> would like to use the "Lucida Console" font with a "Normal" >> font style and a size of 14. Exactly how do I specify these? >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> 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. >>> >>> -tim >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > -- -- 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.
