gVIM has too much space between characters

Question

I installed ubuntu 12.04 lts yesterday, and didn't change any system setting, but gvim can't get correct font display, there's too much space between character.

Screeshot :

http://i.imgur.com/rm9hF.png

The .gvimrc file:

http://i.imgur.com/LngNy.png

Hmm ... can't reproduce it that way, but it is worth to try the following LANG=C gvim or LANG=en_US.UTF-8 gvim. If that works, at least we know what to look for. Take a look at the Joar's answer too, I was able to reproduce his method. — jippie, Apr 29 '12 at 18:17
I had a similar problem, it was because my guifont wasn't installed on the system. — Gabe Moothart, Apr 26 '18 at 22:19

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 28 '12 at 22:22

Try another font.

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_font:

In gvim, you can change the font using the Edit menu, Select Font. An alternative is to enter the command:
:set guifont=*
Once you have a font you like, you want to make it the default in the future. Do
:set guifont?
and Vim will display something like
guifont=Lucida_Console:h11
Make a note of this string. Now put a line in your vimrc to set guifont to this value, like this:
if has('gui_running')
  set guifont=Lucida_Console:h11
endif
Note: If there is a space in the text printed, such as
guifont=Monospace 10
it will be necessary to escape the space
set guifont=Monospace\ 10

My font by default is Monospace 10, which looks normal. I'm curious why gvim on grick's system looks different. — jippie, Apr 29 '12 at 07:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 17 '20 at 21:19

In my case:

gvim 8.1.1401
debian 10 (buster)
X11 with ratpoison

worked to replace:

guifont=Monospace:h10

with

guifont=Monospace\ 10

similarily

set guifont=Source\ Code\ Pro\ for\ Powerline:h10

was replaced by

set guifont=Source\ Code\ Pro\ for\ Powerline\ 10

Not sure if it helps.

gVIM has too much space between characters

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