Gvim: Ubuntu letter spacing (Consolas font)

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Solution

AFAIK the `:h` thing only works on Windows and OS X, in Linux it should be

:set guifont=Consolas\ 11

The weird display is usually caused by wrong font setting. If you are using gvim in different OSs, you can put this to your `.gvimrc`:

if has("gui_gtk2")
    set guifont=Consolas\ 11
elseif has("gui_macvim")
    set guifont=Consolas:h12
elseif has("gui_win32")
    set guifont=Consolas:h11
end

Problem

Thought I could just copy my vimrc from my Windows to my Linux box but running into a few problems with the letter spacing on Ubuntu. Hope this is the right place to ask this question with all these new stackexachange sites. Update: The font is correctly installed I think. From the menu I can select it and it works fine.

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