Sunday, November 3, 2013

Re: Save default font on Gvim on Windows 7.


On Nov 3, 2013 5:19 PM, "John Joche" <johnsonderson@gmail.com> 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?

:h 'guifont', search for paragraph "For the Win32 GUI".

> Thanks.
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:45 AM, John Joche <johnsonderson@gmail.com> 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 <vim@tim.thechases.com> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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