Tip: #824 - Use a smaller font for vimdiff
Created: November 19, 2004 0:04 Complexity: basic Author: Pan Shizhu Version: 6.0 Karma: 15/6 Imported from: Tip#824
Recently someone wants me to post the solutions of this.
I just want to change the font when vim is launched in vimdiff mode, since you'll not be able to change the font later while retain the 1:1 split, (in other cases, I can change the font before :diffs)
Just add something like the following in .gvimrc:
Of course, your fonts may vary.
" Font must be set in .gvimrc
let in_diff_mode = 0
windo let in_diff_mode = in_diff_mode + &l:diff
set guifont=Lucida_Console:h15:cDEFAULT
" In diff mode
if in_diff_mode == 1
set guifont=isi_ansi:h14:cDEFAULT
endif
unlet in_diff_mode
Comments
"Here are some settings for diff mode, the colors are troublesome. if &diff
:set diffopt=filler,iwhite,icase,context:6 ":windo! set wrap " hi diffchange ctermbg=0 .. is black on unix :hi diffchange term=NONE ctermbg=3 ctermfg=5 :hi diffdelete term=NONE ctermbg=0 :hi diffadd term=NONE ctermbg=1 ctermfg=15 if $TERM =~ "xterm" :hi diffchange ctermbg=8 ctermfg=1 :hi difftext ctermbg=8 ctermfg=7 :hi diffadd ctermbg=8 ctermfg=11 endif
endif
mosh at albany
, November 20, 2004 18:51
Nice Tip! But is there any reason not to test for the value of &l:diff directly? In my .gvimrc the following lines seem to work:
if &l:diff set guifont=Monaco:h9 else set guifont=Monaco:h11 endif
Anonymous
, November 26, 2004 1:36
Thank you, I have been looking for information on how to set the font size to much larger on a MacOSX installation of Vim.app.
This worked finally:
set guifont=Monaco:h18
bobsavage--AT--mac.com , September 9, 2005 19:02