Re: wide letter spacing when using gvim (GUI mode)

Ben,

I tried and 4 fonts showed up: DejaVu Sans, Monospace, Sans, Serif, same as if I use GUI's menu to set the font. I have tried each of them but it does not work either.

I wishes I had the root access to our company linux servers so that I could compile vim with multi-byte disabled. Too many libraries/headers are missing for me to compile gvim myself.

Thank you very much for your help anyway!

Alex.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:48:28 PM UTC-6, alexdongli wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
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> I am adding more details to my problem.
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> I use monospace. I access gvim using xterm via reflectionX (an xterm app). I am attaching two files vim.png and gvim.png generated using the same vimrc and the same xterm. You will immediately see what I mean. Now I know it probably has something to do with guifontwide, but just cannot get the problem solved. 
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> My .vimrc file is simple:
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> " set fileencodings=latin1          " tried this too but it does not work.
> set hlsearch
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> set cinoptions=:0,p0,t0
> set cinwords=if,elsif,else,while,do,for,switch,case,foreach,unless,until
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> set guifont=Monospace\ 8
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> "set guifontset=Monospace \8      " tried this too but it does not work
> "set guifontwide=Monospace\ 8    " tried this too but it does not work.
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>

Thanks, those details and the screenshots help a lot.

I'm not 100% certain your "set guifont" line in your .vimrc is doing what you want; the exact string needed depends very much on your system.

Can you try, from gvim, the following command to select a font?

  :set guifont=*

This should bring up a dialog where you can choose a font from a list of supported fonts and sizes.

If selecting a font in this way makes your issue go away, do:

  :set guifont?

or

  :echo getfontname()

to see what string you should put in your .vimrc to set the font permanently.

See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_font if any of this confuses you.

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