On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ron Aaron <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 2, 9:57 am, "George V. Reilly" <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Ron Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > It would also be "really nice" to allow a per-window font. That is, >> > make 'gfn' a window-specific setting. That might not be too hard, but >> > I don't know if Bram will agree to it. >> If you had Courier:h12 in one window and Monaco:h15 in another, how >> would you reconcile the two grids? > Why do you need to reconcile two grids? Have different grids in > different windows - what is the problem with that? I think the assumption that the entire canvas is a grid of same-sized character cells is baked deep into Vim. (I'm using "window" in the Vim sense, as in :split.) >> On a related note, it would be nice if it were possible to supply a >> set of alternatives to guifont, as in CSS. GVim would work its way >> down the list until it found one that was present on the system; e.g., >> >> :set >> guifont=Consolas:h12,Monaco:h12,Andale_Mono:h13,Lucida_Console,Courier:h13 >> >> And then maybe the Vim-supplied fallback value of guifont could be >> changed to something pleasanter, especially on Windows, to, say >> Consolas,Lucida Console,Terminal. > guifont already does exactly this - see 'help guifont'. I've got gfn > set to something like what you list already. Damn! I can't believe that I missed that all these years. -- /George V. Reilly [email protected] http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
