Bug#486399: vim gui

[Anthony Campbell]

On 18 Jun 2008, James Vega wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:47:29AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I've reverted to the previous version now so I can't easily do further
> > tests. I had tried setting the font both directly, via "set gfn" and via
> > the menu -- same result. "set gfn=*" just gave "terminal" -- no choice
> > of fonts. The biggest problem was that the display was tiny; at a
> > resolution of 1600x1020 the characters in the menus were almost too
> > small to read.
> 
> I'm unable to reproduce any problems using a testing chroot.  "set
> gfn=*" lists the DejaVu fonts, monospace, sans, and serif as expected
> since I have no other fonts installed.  I'm able to choose fonts from
> the selection dialog and set them via the normal ":set gfn=..." format.
> 
> Your initial bug report states the version was 1:7.1.293-3 but I notice
> that you're using unstable.  Was the buggy version really 1:7.1.314-2
> and you had already downgraded before filing the bug report?  If so,
> that makes sense as there were build problems with 1:7.1.314-2 and
> vim-gtk was actually using lesstif instead of gtk libraries.
> 
> -- 
> James
> GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>

No, my report was made before downgrading. But last night I repeated the
upgrade process in Sid and this time vim-gtk worked properly. I don't
know quite what happened here but anyway I think you could probably
close the bug now.

Anthony


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