Re: Is vim just for programmers?

On 07/03/10 21:53, Olivier Guéry wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 7, 9:37 pm, Tony Mechelynck<antoine.mechely...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 07/03/10 20:25, Olivier Gu ry wrote:
>>> Last, I realy miss a proportionnal font. Whatever one say, a clean
>>> proportionnal font, with ligatures, is great for writing. If gvim
>>> could use pango or wathever I ll be realy happy ! (I saw that it s
>>> possible on emacs-gui, but I realy prefer the ergonomi in vim).
>>> Nothing s never perfect !
>>
>> Actually, on X11 systems, gvim with GTK2 GUI does use Pango, but it
>> still uses a fixed-size character cell. GTK2 gvim will allow you to set
>> any installed font as 'guifont', but proportional fonts look ugly then,
>> because in the fixed-size cell, thin characters such as l look lonely
>> and fat one such as m look cramped or even clipped.
>
> Ok. I don't know anything about programming ! I've just read that it's
> pango that's used for texts in gtk. And found it doing a realy great
> job (utf, liga, etc.).
> I well understand the importance of « fix-cell » and « grid text » for
> programming usage of vim and the may we move in the text. It sound
> logical to me.
> But for huge « dense » text, proportionnal will be beter.
> Do you think there's a chance for the dev to made use able to use
> proportional fonts ?
> I don't want bother devs with that since it must be one of the huge
> FAQ they get ;)
>
> Regards,
> Olivier.
>

An orthogonal character grid with horizontal lines and vertical columns
is so fundamental to Vim philosophy that I don't figure it could be
changed without rewriting the whole C source from A to Z, alpha to
omega, А to Я, aleph to tav and alif to yaa.

See also the last item at ":help design-not". If you want a fancy
WYSIWYG open-source text processor with proportional fonts,
justification and what-not, don't use Vim, use oowriter.

Best regards,
Tony.
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