On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:07:47PM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:57:56PM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > > > >>cga2000 wrote: > >> > >>>I occasionally need a quick printout of what I am currently editing and > >>>use the :ha command. I was wondering whether there was any way I could > >>>switch to a different printer font or choose a smaller font size. > >>> > >>>I doubt this is relevant but just in case I'll mention that I use vim on > >>>an xterm and cups for print jobs. As to the printer it is an HP Laserjet > >>>with embedded postscript. > >>> > >>>Thanks, > >>> > >>>cga > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>The Vim documentation's well-known needle-and-haystack problem again. > >> > > > >very frustrating this particular time.. I only had to page up once from > >where I was (*printoptions*) to find it.. > > > > > >>See > >> :help 'printfont' > >> :help pfn-option > >> > > > >This last one does not work in my version of vim. :help pfn does.. > > > [...] > > ":help pfn-option" is defined in print.txt (for Vim version 7.0, Last > change: 2006 Apr 30) and there is a link to it under ":help 'printfont'" > in options.txt (for Vim version 7.0, Last change: 2006 May 04). I > downloaded them as part of > http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.0.tar.bz2 dated 7 may 2006, which > is one of the three archives containing the full Vim sources for the > unpatched version 7.0. (Then there are 17 patches -bugfixes- to this day.) > .. as I suspected. Some of the stuff I've read about v7.0 on this list rather made my mouth water.. but as a comparatively new user of debian upgrading vim is something I'm not prepared to do just now..
Thanks, cga
