I write C programs in Vim; the font size in it is very small.
Is there any option to increase the font size in Vim?
36 Answers
This may not be an ideal solution but it works for me.
Just zoom in on your terminal with Ctrl+Shift++.
Zoom out with Ctrl+-
2According with :
Console Vim uses whatever font your console/terminal is using. [...]
When running inside a terminal, Vim can, at most, change the colours (within the limits of the colours supported by the terminal: sometimes bold and unbold black and white, often 8 colours plus bold/unbold foreground only [or seen another way, 8 background and 16 foreground]; on X11 some terminals support up to 256 background and foreground colours; "changing colours" usually also includes the use of reverse-video), and, if the terminal supports them (not all terminals do, and even those which do may support it only with certain fonts), use bold, underline and/or italic.
That being said, if you want to change the font size in Vim editor, you have to change the font size of your terminal. To do this in gnome-terminal go to Edit → Profile Preferences:
Moreover, you can save these preferences in a new terminal profile and when you are start using Vim, use that profile.
As @Costa said in the comment, you can
- run
:set guifontto get the current font - for me, that is
Hack 10 - then set the font with a larger size
:set guifont=Hack\ 12(note the\to escape the space)
Ctrl + mouse scroll up
Ctrl + mouse scroll down.
This works for most terminals.
I use Vim in Xfce4 Terminal. I assigned this script to the keyboard shortcuts ctrl alt + and ctrl alt - which are the usage script-name --in and script-name --out respectively.
#!/bin/bash
# Check if Xfce4 Terminal is running. If it is not, exit.
status=$(pgrep xfce4-terminal)
if [ -z "$status" ]; then notify-send "No Xfce4 Terminal session is open." exit 1
fi
# 1. Get the full line. 2. Get the entire line minus font size. 3. Get only font size.
line=$(grep "FontName" ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc)
font_name=$(echo "$line" | sed s/'\w*$'//)
font_size=$(echo "$line" | grep -oE '[^ ]+$')
# Increase or decrease font size. You might want to change this to increase and decrease by two.
if [ "$1" = "--in" ]; then new_size=$((font_size + 1))
elif [ "$1" = "--out" ]; then new_size=$((font_size - 1))
else notify-send "Argument options: --in --out" exit 1
fi
# Replace the line with the new font size.
action='s/'$font_name$font_size'/'$font_name$new_size'/'
sed -i "$action" ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
# Show only one notification at a time.
notify_status=$(pgrep xfce4-notifyd)
if [ -n "$notify_status" ]; then pkill xfce4-notifyd
fi
# Show the new current font being used.
notify-send -t 200 "$new_size pt font"I tried :set guifont=*This brought up available fonts and sizes to select from
I found this info with :help guifont
