Re: Save default font on Gvim on Windows 7.

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.

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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 <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?

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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