On Sunday 28 September 2003 1:10 am, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > > gvim only offers up a seemingly small subset of fonts on my system > > > (compared to what Mozilla shows, for example). > > > > *Which* gvim? A GTK1 gvim is going to use any XLFD font you care to > > name... a GTK2 gvim is only going to use ones served by fontconfig > > (Xft2). > > > > > I'd like to use the font that my xterm uses, but I'm not sure what > > > it's using. I'm not setting the xterm font in .Xdefaults > > > > Unless you tell it otherwise, xterm is more than likely using the > > 'fixed' font alias. Check its app-defaults file to be sure. > > > > If you're running xterm using anti-aliased fonts, then it could be using > > anything available to Xft1, which is pretty much, again, any XLFD. > > > > You've got standard X fonts, you've got Xft1-rendered fonts, and you've > > got Xft2-rendered fonts. > > [Please CC me on replies; I can't always keep up with -user.] > > Let's assume here he's talking about the latest GTK2 vim-gtk package in > unstable. > > For years (with Debian's standard vim-gtk package and with my own GTK > > builds of Vim under Solaris and AIX), I've been using: > :set > : guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 > > to get (as far as I can tell) the same small "6x13" font I get when I > pop an xterm with: > > -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-8" > > As of my latest 'apt-get update' tonite, though, this no longer works, > presumably because that standard xterm font is not an "Xft2-rendered" > font. > > I personally don't care about fancy antialised fonts in my text editor. > I just want my "6x13" font back, and I don't want to have to build my > own version of vim just to get it. > > Any suggestions on how to get that xterm font to show up in the GTK2 > version of Vim that's in unstable?
Try this: set guifont=Fixed\ 11 I'm guessing you dont like anti aliasing, but if you want to try the bitstream vera fonts, try this: set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 10 Naitik. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
