Re: Vim on XP

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...

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