gvim font at startup

[Todd Wease]

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