Completely disable italic text in GVim
Question
In GVim I'm using a fixedsys-like font which looks good, but with italic text it breaks (chars partially unreadable, especially the last italic one if the next one is regular).
For this reason (and because I dislike italic text anyway) I'd like to completely disable italic text in Vim; without modifying any syntax highlighting related files.
Solution
Whether syntax highlighting uses italic text or not is defined by your colorscheme. Any colorscheme rule can define term
, cterm
, and/or gui
attribute lists, which are described at :help attr-list. You can either clear the relevant colorscheme rules or remove the italic
attribute from them.
For example, if the following rule is in your colorscheme
hi IncSearch gui=italic guifg=#303030 guibg=#cd8b60
you would want to simply remove the gui=italic
bit. You can also specify not to use any of the attributes from attr-list
by setting gui=NONE
.
OTHER TIPS
When using the highly recommended Solarized theme, you can configure this using:
let g:solarized_italic=0