On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:54 +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > Hello, > > gvim has an awfull font at startup that is "Sans Regular 10". > In the Font Selection dialog I can change it to "Courier Regular > 11". This works. > > Now I'de like to set this font at startup by the "set > guifont=courier:h11" statement in ~/.gvimrc. But this selects the > ugly "Sans Regular 12" font. > > Also trying to set the font interactivaly by > > :set guifont=courier:h11 > > results in the "Sans Regular 12" font. > > How can I set the font to "Courier Regular 11" at startup of gvim? > > > Also trying to select a specific size of the "Fixed" font in Font > Selection dialog doesn't work. Selecting 8 or 9 or 10 always results > in the same fontsize. > > How can I set a specific size of the "Fixed" font? > > > -Hanspeter > Here is the line I use in .gvimrc: set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 8 So try: set guifont=Courier\ 11