Doesn't read guifont option

[rygwdn]

neovim.as should respect the guifont option from vim, or provide another way to set it. E.g. in my .nvimrc I have:

set guifont=Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline:h11

[coolwanglu]

Do you think you cat set the value to guifont, seems that I couldn't find a way. Also I'm not sure how to obtain this value using the protocol.

[rygwdn]

looks like guifont is gone in neovim, it fails when I try to set it. maybe this issue should become "Allow setting custom font".

[coolwanglu]

Yeah, I think we should file the issue to neovim.

[kopischke]

Yeah, I think we should file the issue to neovim.

Not sure that will help, the point of Neovim being to decouple UIs from the editor core; IIRC the removal of all GUI options is intentional. This option is probably better provided by Neovim.AS.

[coolwanglu]

@kopischke I see, so we will not be able to store GUI config in ~/.vimrc?

[rygwdn]

I think if we want to store gui config in a vimrc, it would be stored the same as a normal plugin:

let g:neovimas_font = "my font"

That would then be available through the neovim API

[kopischke]

I’d argue that set guifont doesn'’t belong into .vimrc anyway, but to the GUI specific .gvimrc. AFAIK Neovim doesn’t read for that file for exactly this reason, so how about Neovim.as does? Configuration would still happen in Vimland, as per user expectation.

[rygwdn]

I think they removed .gvimrc because it doesn't make sense anymore. With neovim you can have two UIs attached to the same neovim process. That means you could have the terminal UI and a "GUI" attached at the same time.

[kopischke]

Yup exactly, which is why is it is available as a configuration file for GUIs. However, that is only a solution in theory, as .gvimrc is a full fledged VimL file, not something you would want to re-implement a parser for. The path of least resistance would probably be to provide a Neovim.AS specific JSON configuration file.

[coolwanglu]

Right, I guess a JSON/CSON file would fit Neovim.AS better.

[justinmk]

I'm sure we will add that option back.

[coolwanglu]

So what do you think, a ~/.nvas.json file or an nvas_option in ~/.vimrc? Like this

let g:nvas_option = "{ \
'font': 'monospace' \
}"

[coolwanglu]

Now config from userDataDir/config.cson is read, which overrides the default configuration.

See also: https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/blob/master/docs/api/app.md#appgetpathname