set gvim font in vimrc file

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I am using gVim 7 2 on Windows 7  I can set the gui font as Consolas 10  font size  from the menu  I am trying to set this in  vimrc file like below   set guifont Consolas  10   But it doesn t work  Does anyone know how to set this

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For Windows do the following    Note down the font name and font size from the  Edit-Select Font     menu of  gvim exec   Then do     e  MYGVIMRC Search for  guifont  string and change it to set guifont  lt font name as noted gt  h lt font size gt  Save the file and quit  Next time when you execute gvim exec  you will see the effect

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Although this is an old thread I thought that I would add a comment as I have come across it whilst trying to solve a similar issue  this might help anyone else who may find themselves here   The backslash character is used to ignore the next character  once added to the font name in my gvimrc it worked  I am on a GNU Linux machine which does not like spaces  I suspect that the initial post was an error due to the back slash being used on a windows machine   In example    set guifont      From gvim command  would give the following       set guifont DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline 11   Where as I needed to add this line to the gvimrc file for it to be read   set guifont DejaVu  Sans  Mono  for  Powerline  11

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Start a graphical vim session  Do  e  MYGVIMRC Enter Use the graphical font selection dialog to select a font  Type  set guifont  Tab Enter  Type G o to start a new line at the end of the file  Type Ctrl R followed by      The command in step 6 will insert the contents of the   special register  which contains the last ex-mode command used  Here that will be the command  from step 4  which has the properly formatted font name thanks to the tab  completion of the value previously set using the GUI dialog

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I had to end up doing  set guifont Courier h10 cANSI

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Try setting your font from the menu and then typing   set guifont    This should display to you the string that Vim has set this option to  You ll need to escape any spaces

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Ubuntu 14 04 LTS      cd etc vim    etc vim  sudo gvim gvimrc   After if - endif block  type  set guifont Neep  10   save the file   wq    Here  Neep   your choice  is the font style and  10  is respect size of the font  Then build the font - cache again     etc vim  fc-cache -f -v   Your desired font will set to gvim

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I use the following  Uses Consolas size 11 on Windows  Menlo Regular size 14 on Mac OS X and Inconsolata size 12 everywhere else    if has  gui running     if has  gui gtk2       set guifont Inconsolata  12   elseif has  gui macvim       set guifont Menlo  Regular h14   elseif has  gui win32       set guifont Consolas h11 cANSI   endif endif   Edit  And while you re at it  you could take a look at Coding Horror s Programming Fonts blog post   Edit    Added MacVim

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When I try  set guifont Consolas h16  I get  Warning  Font  quot Consolas quot  reports bad fixed pitch metrics and the following is work  and don t show the waring  autocmd vimenter   GuiFont  Consolas h16  by the way  if you want to use the mouse wheel to control the font-size  then you can add  function  AdjustFontSize amount      let s font size   s font size   a amount      execute  quot GuiFont  Consolas h quot    s font size endfunction  noremap  lt C-ScrollWheelUp gt   call AdjustFontSize 1  lt CR gt  noremap  lt C-ScrollWheelDown gt   call AdjustFontSize -1  lt CR gt   and if you want to pick the font  you can set set guifont    will bring up a font requester  where you can pick the font you want

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I am trying to set this in  vimrc file like below   For GUI specific settings use the  gvimrc instead of  vimrc  which on Windows is either  HOME  gvimrc or  VIM  gvimrc   Check the  help  gvimrc for details  In essence  on start-up VIM reads the  vimrc  After that  if GUI is activated  it also reads the  gvimrc  IOW  all VIM general settings should be kept in  vimrc  all GUI specific things in  gvimrc   But if you do no use console VIM then you can simply forget about the  vimrc       set guifont Consolas  10   The syntax is wrong  After  set guifont   you can always check the proper syntax for the font using  set guifont   VIM Windows syntax is  set guifont Consolas h10  I do not see precise specification for that  though it is mentioned in the  help win32-faq

[windows] set gvim font in .vimrc file

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