List of fonts available in gvim

vim macvim
user376507 picture user376507 · Feb 19, 2014 · Viewed 10k times · Source

I know I can set fonts for gvim using something like set guifont=Menlo\ Regular:h14. I have the following questions

  1. Is there a wiki where I can see what all fonts are supported?
  2. I want to set my font to "Lucida Sans Typewriter". I tried set guifont=Lucida Sans Typewriter\ Regular:h14, but it gave me an error when I opened a file using gvim. Error is "E518: Unknown option: Sans"
  3. I also tried to increase the font size using set guifont=Sans\ Regular:h14, but looks like it is stuck at font size 11. I am trying this on macvim.

Answer

hobbs picture hobbs · Feb 19, 2014

  1. You need to backslash all of the spaces in the font name, not just the last one.

  2. You can :set guifont=* to open a font chooser with the fonts available on your system. Then after you pick one you like you can :set guifont? to read back the value you need to put in your .vimrc.

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