Change font

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created February 16, 2008 · complexity basic · author Metacosm · version 7.0

In gvim, you can change the font using the Edit menu, Select Font. An alternative is to enter the command:

:set guifont=*

Once you have a font you like, you want to make it the default in the future. Do

:set guifont?

and Vim will display something like

guifont=Lucida_Console:h11

Make a note of this string. Now put a line in your vimrc to set guifont to this value, like this:

if has('gui_running')
  set guifont=Lucida_Console:h11
endif

Note: Do not forget to escape blanks in the font name with \

Comments

Am keeping this as a simple form of VimTip632 for newcomers.