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by edambauskas 5568 days ago
Try a different setup. Which variant of VIM where you using on Windows ?

I need to use Windows at work but I am using VIM for my daily development needs.

I use Msysgit+Console 2 to get a tabbed shell and use VIM from inside it. I probably used Cygwin to install ctags. I also have gVim but don't use it (one of the reasons -- I don't like the font and haven't found out yet how to change it).

I had to play a little bit until I got my setup working. It is not perfect (mouse scroll does not work inside my shell VIM). But it satisfies me.

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To change the font in gVim, set guifont in your .vimrc file

ex. (from mine): set guifont=Courier_New:h8:b:cANSI

However, if you are happy with your current setup, I'm not sure there's a reason to change things just for the gui.