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Thanks. I'd previously tried and failed a couple of times to get a NeoVim gui installed, mainly because I wanted to try one of those ligature fonts that display
by Smylers 5y ago
Thanks. I'd previously tried and failed a couple of times to get a NeoVim gui installed, mainly because I wanted to try one of those ligature fonts that display -> as → and the like. There seemed to be a few different options, in various states of being abandoned, or unpackaged, or needing libraries not in my OS, or ...
Turns out now all that's needed for Ubuntu is sudo apt install neovim-qt. Thank you for prompting me to look at this again.
However, on running it, the window seemed very wide, so one of the first things I tried was `:set columns=80` — and nothing happened. Checking :h 'co`, it looks like it's supposed to work.
Ah, and it seems the (released version of) QT gui doesn't support ligature fonts yet. The FiraCode website says it works with NeoVim-gtk: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#user-content-editor-compatibility-list https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#user-content-editor-compa...
Maybe I'll give that another go ...