gvim font at startup

[Hanspeter Roth]

Hello,

gvim has an awfull font at startup that is "Sans Regular 10".
In the Font Selection dialog I can change it to "Courier Regular
11". This works.

Now I'de like to set this font at startup by the "set
guifont=courier:h11" statement in ~/.gvimrc. But this selects the
ugly "Sans Regular 12" font.

Also trying to set the font interactivaly by

:set guifont=courier:h11

results in the "Sans Regular 12" font.

How can I set the font to "Courier Regular 11" at startup of gvim?

Also trying to select a specific size of the "Fixed" font in Font
Selection dialog doesn't work. Selecting 8 or 9 or 10 always results
in the same fontsize.

How can I set a specific size of the "Fixed" font?

-Hanspeter

[Todd Wease]

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:54 +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> Hello,
>
> gvim has an awfull font at startup that is "Sans Regular 10".
> In the Font Selection dialog I can change it to "Courier Regular
> 11". This works.
>
> Now I'de like to set this font at startup by the "set
> guifont=courier:h11" statement in ~/.gvimrc. But this selects the
> ugly "Sans Regular 12" font.
>
> Also trying to set the font interactivaly by
>
> :set guifont=courier:h11
>
> results in the "Sans Regular 12" font.
>
> How can I set the font to "Courier Regular 11" at startup of gvim?
>
> Also trying to select a specific size of the "Fixed" font in Font
> Selection dialog doesn't work. Selecting 8 or 9 or 10 always results
> in the same fontsize.
>
> How can I set a specific size of the "Fixed" font?
>
> -Hanspeter

Here is the line I use in .gvimrc:

set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 8

So try:

set guifont=Courier\ 11

[Hanspeter Roth]

On Aug 07 at 11:05, Todd Wease spoke:
> Here is the line I use in .gvimrc:
>
> set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 8
>
> So try:
>
> set guifont=Courier\ 11

Thanks for the clarification and the recommendation.

I have now chosen Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 9 for a screen of
resolution 1280x800.

-Hanspeter