Description of problem: When running gvim in Cinnamon using the default Monospace font (which I believe is DejaVu Sand Mono) at 10.5pt with Antialiasing set to Rgba and hinting set to Slight, underscores are invisible. I.e., spaces and underscores become indistinguishable. This does not happen if hinting is set to anything other than Slight, if Antialiasing is set to None, or with the font set to 10pt or 11pt. Unfortunately, I'm finding 10pt too large and 11pt too small, and it's important to be able to see underscores in code. Strangely, with the same font settings, gnome-terminal has no problem displaying underscores. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-filesystem-7.4.027-2.fc20.x86_64 vim-minimal-7.4.027-2.fc20.x86_64 vim-common-7.4.027-2.fc20.x86_64 vim-X11-7.4.027-2.fc20.x86_64 vim-enhanced-7.4.027-2.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set Antialising to Rgba or Greyscale. 2. Set Hinting to Slight. 3. Set font in gvim to Monospace 10.5pt. Actual results: Underscores look like this: Expected results: Underscores look like this: _______
It seems like gvim is only getting this wrong with DejaVu Sans Mono. Inconsolata at 10.5pt looks fine.
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This still occurs with: vim-common-7.4.640-4.fc22.x86_64 vim-X11-7.4.640-4.fc22.x86_64 vim-minimal-7.4.640-4.fc22.x86_64 vim-filesystem-7.4.640-4.fc22.x86_64 vim-enhanced-7.4.640-4.fc22.x86_64 in Fedora 22.
This bug is still present on Fedora 23. It also happens with gedit, it's not limited to gvim. On gnome-terminal, which is using the same monospace font (Deja Vu Sans Mono, 10.5) the underscore character is show successfully.
In my case, it only happend in gVim. Other Gtk2 apps such as gimp do not seem to have this problem. References (Maybe the root cause) Autohinting causes glyphs to overflow the bounding box http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37182 Workaround that also work-for-me: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21964631/gvim-display-underscore-as-space
The workaround suggested also works for me on gvim: set linespace=2 (or any value greater than 1).
The other workaround: Use Oxygen Mono instead. Fedora has oxygen-mono-font. That font basically have similar characteristic to DejaVu Mono. Try it with following string "oisl _OIS.015!,"
This looks a lot like the autohinting issue mentioned in comment #6. This isn't a bug in gvim, just an unfortunate interaction between font, linespace and autohinting. I'd suggest to use the workaround in comment #7 if you insist on 10.5pt
I still see this bug on Fedora 28. The original report makes it sound like one needs to choose a very specific combination of fonts, sizes, etc., for underscores to be invisible, but the point is that I didn't *choose* anything - I'm just using the default font, default size, etc. The workaround of comment 7 ("set linespace=2") worked, but is ugly. If I choose most font in the edit->select font menu, the underscores also come back. It's just the default "Monospace Regular" font, at any size (I tried the default size 10, and also size 11), which has this problem. I don't know if to call this a Vim bug per se, but I think it is certainly vim's duty to *avoid* this bug, even if it's in another component - perhaps by picking a different default font.