Hi, > > Is there a way to test whether vim can display a glyph with the > > current font?
> I don't think there is a good way, because especially in the terminal > Vim won't know what the result of a character will actually look > like. > Best way I can think of, put the character on the tabline. Then > capture the result and compare using `:echo nr2char(screenchar(1,1))` > > That is probably nothing that can be done without the user noticing > it (e.g. it most likely requires a redraw for the tabline to be > displayed before capturing the result and then hiding and restoring > the tabline again). Thanks for the idea Christian. So far, I've played with fc-list and with python+fontconfig module when fc-list is too old. Indeed, I don't see any other native and portable way to do it, other than the one you propose. I'll add a fallback based on screenchar() when the other solutions cannot be used. I guess I'll cache the results so the user will only have to do suffer from the check once. I guess I'll require her/him to explicitly update the glyph cache when the plugin is ran for the first time. Thanks again -- Luc Hermitte -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
