Re: Where does gvim look for fonts in cygwin x-windows

On Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 12:50:13 AM UTC-4, Random832 wrote:
>Paul <Paul.Domaskis <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm finding that cygwin's gvim no longer seems to use the same
>> cryptic font names as xfontsel. They are much simpler names. So
>> it seems that gvim doesn't use the X-window fonts. I'm at a loss
>> for how to select cygwin packages that will expand my font options
>> in gvim. Can anyone please explain?
>
> What happens if you run ":set gfn=*" ? Can you select fonts; what
> fonts appear; and what does the value of the gfn option look like
> afterwards? You say they are much simpler, but don't explain
> exactly what they look like.

Here is a sample of the font families from "set gfn=*". I only chose
examples with monospacing

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
Courier 10 Pitch
DejaVu Sans Mono
FreeMono
Inconsolata
Liberation Mono
Monospace
Nimbus Mono L
Oxygen Mono
Source Code Pro
Terminus
Unifont

Hmmm. Now that I take stock, that's quite a selection. Maybe I don't
need more. I was looking for something to fill the gap between
"Monospace 7" and "Monospace 8", since it seems text size visually
seesms to take a quantum leap bewteen those two.

> Does the cygwin gvim use gtk 2? What is has("gui_gtk2")...

It is 1.

> ...and does the font name look like the one in the example in :h
> setting-guifont ?

gfn is the following, but that's because I set it in vimrc:

guifont=Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8

If I run vim without having it source vimrc, gfn is blank.

Anyway, I'd still be interested in where vim searches for fonts. This
aspect of vim is a bit of a black art to me.

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