Font manager for Vim
- List useable fonts
- Quickly change fonts
- Quickly change font style and/or size
This only works in a vim GUI - you can't set fonts from Vim in terminal
To list avaliable fonts
:FontList
This will create a new window and display a list of fonts. This may take a second to work out which fonts can be used.
Bitstream Charter
Cantarell
Century Schoolbook L
Courier 10 Pitch
DejaVu Sans Mono
DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Light
Dingbats
...
Just hit ENTER on the font you want to use and it will be loaded. Press q to
quit the window.
Or you can use
:Font Dingbats
Which will change your font to Dingbats. The font will be autocompleted.
Change size. This command has a helpful autocomplete, suggesting sizes close to the current size.
:FontSize 14
Now your using size 14 font. Easy.
Change style:
:FontStyle bold
:FontStyle bold italic
:FontStyle italic bold
:FontStlye
The last one clears the style. Again it will complete style for you.
Fontmanager also frees up some .vimrc configuration. You can set this in your
.vimrc to load a font when you start vim.
let g:fontman_font = "DejaVu Sans Mono"
This means no more fiddling with escaping with spaces and correcting the format to match your OS. This font will be loaded when fontmanager starts.
let g:fontman_size = 14
let g:fontman_style = "bold"
To set font size and style easily in your .vimrc.
Font manager stores a cache of the currently available fonts, if a new font is
added this cache needs to be updated. Run :FontResetUseableList.
I recommend installing using Vundle:
Add Bundle 'takac/vim-fontmanager' to your ~/.vimrc and then:
- either within Vim:
:BundleInstall - or in your shell:
vim +BundleInstall +qall