Add to Available Fonts in gVim

Question

While at work, I'm sadly forced to use Windows. I'm unhappy with (read: rageful toward) the font choices gVim offers, and I'd like to change it to the font I use on my dev computer at home.

However, gVim has limited options when it comes to what is available with the set guifont= option. Even though I know the font in question is great with VIM, as I use it elsewhere, I don't know how to add to the list of available fonts even though I have installed it on this machine, and I can't find this information anywhere.

Does anyone have any insight into this? I really don't understand why I can't set the guifont to be any monospace font I damn well please, instead of what gVim thinks is best.

Answer 1

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

I've done the same with your font and it's not added to the list.

It's probably a problem with the font itself.

From :help guifont I gather that, on Windows, Gvim only accepts monospaced fonts.

From the description your font seems to be monospaced but it's probably not 100% exact: I don't know if it's a glitch or what but the boxes on the pages don't seem to align very well.

I think that a monospaced font should make all the boxes aligned.