I recently set up GVim on my windows 7 machine and here are some of the GUI customizations I made.
What files?
There are two files the you’ll need to customize GVim in Windows. The _vimrc file and the _gvimrc file. Note that in windows the file names are proceeded by and underscore character rather than a dot as in linux. These files should be created in your “C:\Program Files\Vim” directory. The basic rule for figuring out which file your customizations should go in is this: if it has to do with the graphic display of GVim put it in the _gvimrc file. Command type configuration should go in the _vimrc file.
Changing the theme:
Download the color scheme to C:\Program Files\Vim\vimfiles\colors (if this directory doesn’t exist create it)
Ex: C:\Program Files\Vim\vimfiles\colors\wombat.vim
Add the following line to your _gvimrc file:
colorscheme [colorscheme name]
Ex: “colorscheme wombat” sans quotes.
As a side note, the wombat color scheme is one of my favorites for VIM. Here is a quick screen shot of the wombat theme.
It can be downloaded here: http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wombat/
Change the default font:
Add the following line to your _gvimrc file:
set guifont=[Font Name]:[size]:cDEFAULT
Ex: set guifont=Consolas:h11:cDEFAULT
When using GVim I also like to remove the menu bar, the tool bar and right-hand scroll bar to make the experience look more like the traditional Vim experience on a linux machine.
Remove the manu bar:
Add the following line to your _gvimrc file
set guioptions-=m
Remove the tool bar:
Add the following line to your _gvimrc file
set guioptions-=T
Remove the right-hand scroll bar:
Add the following line to your _gvimrc file
set guioptions-=r
