gvim with syntax highlighting looks icky

[Parv]

in message
<612efea10510281118p786c09e1oe3fa445643294586 at mail.gmail.com>, wrote
Floyd May thusly...
>
> I just pulled down the most recent port of vim (6.4), and use of
> syntax highlighting in gvim looks bad.  Any bold text is rendered
> with too much space between the characters, which basically
> creates a near-unreadable display in many cases.  However,
> scrolling across the affected text with the cursor corrects the
> problem.
...
> To reproduce, open an HTML file in gvim (XML and python also show
> the same behavior), and enable syntax highlighting.

No problem here w/ my own syntax highlighting or those supplied w/
vim, Motif, and screen 18 font.


  - Parv

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