Add to Available Fonts in gVim

Question

At work, I sadly have to use Windows. I am unhappy (read: violently to) the gVim font selection options, and I would like to change it to the font that I use on my computer at home.

However, gVim has limited options when it comes to what is available with the guifont = set. Although I know that this font is great for VIM, since I use it elsewhere, I don’t know how to add to the list of available fonts, even if I installed it on this machine, and I can’t find this information anywhere .

Can anyone figure this out? I really don't understand why I cannot install guifont like any monospace font. Damn, well, please, instead of what gVim thinks best.

Answer 1

I just downloaded, unpacked, installed DejaVu Sans Mono and added it to the list.

I did the same with your font and it is not added to the list.

This is probably a problem with the font itself.

From :help guifont I understand that on Windows, Gvim only accepts monospace fonts.

From the description, your font seems to be monospaced, but probably not 100% accurate: I don't know if it is bad or what, but the boxes on the pages do not seem to align very well.

I think a monospace font should align all fields.