Re: Save default font on Gvim on Windows 7.

On Saturday, November 2, 2013 2:35:03 PM UTC-5, 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.
>
> Has this been fixed in Gvim 7.4 or does this bug persist? Or does anyone know of a better way to set the default font? Cause the FixedSys font sucks as it cannot display Czech characters, and I don't want to have to go to the menu to change it every time I open a file that contains Czech characters. Thanks.

Setting guifont in the _vimrc works just fine in Vim 7.4 on Windows 7. I've been using 7.4 since it came out of beta on Windows 7, and I set my font to DejaVu Sans Mono in my _vimrc.

To set the font, I always use:

:set guifont=*

This brings up a dialog for me to select the font as I like it.

Then I can :echo getfontname() to see what that turns into as a Vim option value.

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