vimrc debug help

[zenius]

Hi guys,

New to the vim_use group - hi :) Apologies if I'm breaking policy with this! Please point me to policy guides if I am.

I'm struggling to set the guifont from my .vimrc and I don't know how to debug it :( Can you advise?

I've been using vim (I use gvim almost exclusively) for a couple of years, but only tend to learn reactively - I face a problem and I search how to solve it. But I can't seem to fix this one! I've included my .vimrc below. I'm using the command that I believe *should* change the guifont, but it doesn't work from my .vimrc. It gets set to (I guess) the default of 'Monospace 16' whenever I open a new vim window. Can any of you see what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

(N.B. I pretty much only code in linux world so I haven't got around to trying to set guifont based on OS.

Also, if you see commands where you infer I'm trying to do something, but you know it won't work, please say :) )

.vimrc:

syntax on

set guifont=Monospace\ 5

set backspace=indent,eol,start

set number

set ignorecase

set hlsearch

set cursorline

set listchars=eol:$,tab:>-,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<

set list

set lines=15

set columns=80

set directory^=$HOME/.vim/tmp//

set ruler

set autoindent

set noswapfile

filetype plugin indent on

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.v setfiletype systemverilog

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.sv setfiletype systemverilog

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.svh setfiletype systemverilog

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.sva setfiletype systemverilog

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.vc setfiletype systemverilog

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.xml setfiletype xml

[Francis Grizzly Smit]

I'd do that in .gvimrc  for a start

try :tab help helpgrep

or :help helpgrep

to learn how to find out how to search form stuff

then

:helpgrep font

or :tab helpgrep font

to get all the help on fonts

or

:tab helpgrep guifont

or :tab help guifont

                    *'guifont'* *'gfn'*
                           *E235* *E596*
'guifont' 'gfn'        string    (default "")
            global
            {not in Vi}
            {only available when compiled with GUI enabled}
    This is a list of fonts which will be used for the GUI version of Vim.
    In its simplest form the value is just one font name.  When
    the font cannot be found you will get an error message.  To try other
    font names a list can be specified, font names separated with commas.
    The first valid font is used.

    On systems where 'guifontset' is supported (X11) and 'guifontset' is
    not empty, then 'guifont' is not used.
:

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[Gary Johnson]

On 2019-11-29, Francis Grizzly Smit wrote:
> I'd do that in .gvimrc  for a start

That's not necessary. I set mine in my vimrc and it works fine.

On 29/11/2019 20:32, zenius wrote:

> set guifont=Monospace\ 5

What happens when you execute that command at the command line?
Does your system have that font? You can find out what 'guifont' is
set to and where it was last set with

:verbose set guifont?

and get a dialog box allowing you to set an available font with

:set guifont=*

or by selecting Edit -> Select Font... from the menu bar.

Regards,
Gary