yes, it was being overridden by the system. I became root and struck that from the init script. seems like a poor system default if I can't set a font in .vimrc.
thanks Moshe Kaminsky wrote: >Hi, > >Did you go through all of the initialization scripts, to see if it's >not overridden there? (To see what these scripts are do > :help startup >inside vim) > >Moshe > >* Stewart Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020408 21:46]: > >>I've just upgraded from RH 7.2 to Mandrake 8.2 and gvim/vimx is now >>ignoring the "set guifont" directive in my .vimrc file. What's extremely >>odd about this is that after vim is launched, I can manually issue the >>command and it sets the font appropriately (yes, I've tried many many >>different fonts). Something else seems to be taking precedent, but I >>don't know where. >> >>thanks, >> >>stewart >>
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