[SOLVED] FUBAR gvim display

Question

I reccently installed gvim to use as my text editor, but I'm having a bit of trouble seeing text, whitespace, or anything otherwise meaningful on it.  I've tried changing the font, setting the encoding to utf8, which helped some people who were having problems with similar rectangles showing up for foreign characters, uninstalling/reinstalling gvim, and pacman -Syu, all to no avail.  I explored my logs folder as was suggested in the sticky, but I'm not really sure where I'd find anything that would be helpful.
Vim works just fine.
My display:
http://puu.sh/eo6JT/4a04216ede.jpg
Last edited by vorom (2015-01-14 20:17:48)

Answer 1

The picture's an empty file.
The start screen: http://oi59.tinypic.com/2dmca9t.jpg
I hadn't created a .vimrc or a .gvimrc.  I stole a user's gvimrc from the internet which read
" 100 columns, 60 lines
:set co=100
:set lines=60
" Use visual bell instead of beeping
:set visualbell
" Use CSS for HTML conversion
:let html_use_css = 1
" Luxi Mono 8 point font
:set gfn=Luxi\ Mono\ 8
and used that one, which did very little.  Picture: http://oi57.tinypic.com/2q0ok2a.jpg
Last edited by vorom (2015-01-12 21:17:31)