cga2000 wrote:
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?
[...]
No, I still see the tags, and <font color=red>blah blah blah</font>
doesn't make "blah blah blah" show up red in gvim, but the HTML syntax
has groups htmlItalic, htmlBold, htmlUnderlined, htmlBoldItalic, etc.,
which appear as italic, bold, underlined, bold-italic, etc., in the GUI
(unless, of course, a colorscheme changes them, but why would it want to?).
Similarly, the built-in spell checker uses (by default) curly
underlining, so the background and foreground colours of the underlying
text are not altered.
Best regards,
Tony.
