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Re:Neovim v0.4.0 by coldtea on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:48AM (#20983118)
>Although I have to say fvim looks tempting as well

Visited its page to have a look... I'm not sure why they'd put a screenshot with a variable width font, which automatically puts lots of people off when it comes to coding...

It's like having a screenshot of your bitmap editor, and showing it editing goatse.cx...

Re:Neovim v0.4.0 by franek on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:45AM (#20985224)
The option to use proportional fonts is a very rare feature in vim-like text editors (the only other way I know of is to use terminal vim in mlterm), so for people who want this the screenshot is good advertisement.

In fact, after reading you comment, I promptly startet to install it (still compiling as I type this). My use-case is creative writing: I'm very used to vim keybindings from coding, but prefer to have a variable-width fonts for writing.

Re:Neovim v0.4.0 by v-yadli on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:33PM (#20985807)
fvim author here. The font in the screenshot is `Iosevka Slab` which _is_ monospace -- `fvim` currently syncs with the neovim grid system and doesn't support proportional fonts well.

Sorry about the confusion -- I think you've already discovered that (after 46 minutes)!

Re:Neovim v0.4.0 by coldtea on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:55PM (#20986051)
>The font in the screenshot is `Iosevka Slab` which _is_ monospace -- `fvim` currently syncs with the neovim grid system and doesn't support proportional fonts well.

Aha, looked like a proportional font was used to me. I'd use a more well designed monospace font for the first impression!

Re:Neovim v0.4.0 by franek on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:44PM (#20985928)
Wow, I was completely fooled by the serifs and my excitement. Thank you for clearing that up!