`editor.fontFamily` in settings should suggest list of available monospace fonts

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`editor.fontFamily` in settings should suggest list of available monospace fonts #22917

Open gregvanl opened 7 years ago

gregvanl commented 7 years ago

From @letientai299 on March 16, 2017 9:57

Copied from original issue: Microsoft/vscode-docs#889

vekuda commented 5 years ago

I started to use VS Code today and I found out that this basic issue exists since forever...

Will anyone ever fix it?

petertirrell commented 5 years ago

Would something like this font-manager module (https://github.com/foliojs/font-manager) help facilitate something like this? A font selection functionality like regular Visual Studio would be handy.

vekuda commented 5 years ago

I'm too ignorant to give an answer, but a font manager is definitely what is needed.

Hopefully @alexandrudima sees your comment and takes it into consideration.

codebymiles commented 4 years ago

Upvoting for visibility - this is an egregious oversight given how easy it is to select monospaced fonts in every other serious editor.

rzhao271 commented 3 years ago

Closing in favour of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22917

yume-chan commented 3 years ago

Should be #128355

Tyriar commented 3 years ago

Reopening so we don't lose the upvotes, also technically this would involve more on top of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128355 as that doesn't differentiate monospace/non-monospace. FWIW that should be possible but would involve measuring each font to check that they are indeed monospace (ctx.measureText for i and w?).

brendoncdrew commented 2 years ago

I also would find this extremely helpful as i cant even figure out the correct naming scheme to even select the font i'd want without having a list there to choose from...