" Make external commands work through a pipe instead of a pseudo-tty "set noguipty " You can also specify a different font, overriding the default font "if has('gui_gtk') " set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 12 "else " set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1 "endif " If you want to run gvim with a dark background, try using a different " colorscheme or running 'gvim -reverse'. " Source a global configuration file if available if filereadable("/etc/vim/gvimrc.local") source /etc/vim/gvimrc.local endif