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One of the many (many) benefits of having worked for BlackStar back in the day is that I learned a great deal of good stuff (keeping in touch with those people has meant I still do). One part of that good stuff is Vim.

Vim is great, once you get used to it editing files is so much easier than on editors which depend on a mouse for simple things like searching. JB pointed out that Vim is also available on Windows Hurrah! So, some pointers for my own benefit:

To set the font type of your choosing first select the font from the ‘Edit > Select font…’ menu dialog, then, in your gvim window type :echo &guifont - what you get here add into you _vimrc file like so:

set guifont=Courier_New:h8:cANSI

The part after the = is the result that was echoed back in the last step.

To set the colour scheme:

source $VIMRUNTIME/colors/darkblue.vim

Where darkblue.vim is the file that correlates to the ‘darkblue’ option in the ‘Edit > Colour Scheme’ dropdown.

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