On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:09:29AM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: [..] > > > >>and it can change fonts on-the-fly (change > >>the font from Courier to Lucida to whatever, only through Vim keyboard > >>commands). > > > >I would never want do that.. but just out of curiosity.. why would that > >not be possible in an xterm? > > because console Vim has no control over the xterm's fonts. > ok. a bit more flexible than toggling the xterm's font. > > > >>It can do "real" boldface and italics, as well as straight or > >>curly underlining. > > > >That would be for highlighting stuff, right? So the same functionality > >can be achieved with colors. And in a more pleasing manner IMHO.. the > >color schemes that I have seen that use italics have not convinced me. > > I do html a lot, and it helps me to see <i>italics, <b>bold italics, > <u>bold underlined italics,</u></b> <u>underlined > italics,</u></i><u>underlined</u> text all displayed like they should.
.. meaning you can toggle between the source version and the rendered version of the document in Vim? > Of course colours can do it, but console vim has only 16 bg and 16 fg > colours: the list is soon over. .. my mistake.. I never counted them and I thought that console Vim on a 256-color xterm was capable of displaying 256 colors simultaneoulsy. [..] > > Note: ":setl fenc=latin9" follows by ":setl fenc?" returns > "iso-8859-15". This is normal, they are two names for the same thing. > > > > >So this should help clarify the issue. > >>For more details, see > >> :help mbyte.txt > >> http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=246 > >> section 37 (last) of the Vim FAQ > >>http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/vimfaq.html > >> http://www.unicode.org/ > >> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html Thanks cga
