Re: vim fonts change with time and with computer

On Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:51:05 PM UTC-4, AndyHancock wrote:
> I've got font increment key mappings such as:
>
> map <C-F6> :set guifont=Monospace\ 8<CR>
> map <C-F7> :set guifont=Monospace\ 9<CR>
> map <C-F8> :set guifont=Monospace\ 10<CR>
> map <C-F9> :set guifont=Monospace\ 11<CR>
> map <C-F10> :set guifont=Monospace\ 12<CR>
> map <C-F11> :set guifont=Monospace\ 13<CR>
> map <C-F12> :set guifont=Monospace\ 14<CR>
>
> Over the years, I've found that it can take countless hours to choose good fonts, and it's also pretty important when you're staring and many source files simultaneously.
>
> Lately, I've encountered puzzling behaviours in how gvim handles font selections which could partially explain why font refinement takes such a long time when I migrate my settings to a different PC or when I find that my past font selections seem oddly unsatisfying, for some strange reason.
>
> The first is that when I use the GUI menu to select fonts (Edit->Select Font), the list of font names seem to change based on factors that I haven't been able to identify yet. That is, I could see a font name on the list and later not see it.
>
> The second is that the exact same fonts (such as the ones above) look different on different computers. That is, it will be sans serif on one system and not another. Like a completely different font. I am pretty sure that the font libraries are the same because I use the same cygwin x-windows install packages. What might cause this?

P.S. I should clarify that it is exactly the same gvim version, since it's the same cygwin package.

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