How to easily test for guifont in vimrc?

Question

I have many different machines that I am logging into and none of them have decent fonts in common. So, I would like to be able to have my first preferance for a font but if it does not exist on the machine use another one and so on. Has anyone done this before? ... So after re-reading the help on guifont it seems that I should be able to have multiple fonts defined seperated by commas. The funny thing is though I have the following line in my .vimrc: ``` set guifont=-dt-interface\ user-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1,Liberation\ Mono\ 8 ``` And on one machine (gvim 7.1) I do a ``` :set gfn? guifont=-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ``` And on another machine (gvim 7.2) I get: ``` :set gfn? guifont=-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1,Liberation Mono 8 ``` I will try to run 7.1 on the incorrect machine and see if it fixes the problem and if so doesn't it seem like a bug in 7.2? SOLUTION Here is the code I cam up with to fix…

Accepted Answer

Not a direct solution to your problem, but you could use `hostname()` and a conditional statement to select the font you would like:

```
  if hostname() == 'home-pc'
      set guifont=...
  elseif hostname() == 'work-pc'
      set guifont=...
  else
      set guifont=...
  endif
```

How to easily test for guifont in vimrc?

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