Re: gvim on cygwin/xfree inherits height of xterm

2015-09-24 Thread Paul
Tony Mechelynck gmail.com> writes: > has('gui') means "compiled with GUI capability". On Unix-like > platforms (but not on Windows) it is possible to use a single > executable binary as both vim and gvim (with the help of symlinks > and/or command-line switches). It will have has('gui') on in

Re: gvim on cygwin/xfree inherits height of xterm

2015-09-24 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Paul wrote: […] > I think I've been bastardizing the [g]vimrc scheme to maintain my > habits from before, when I used vi. I was used to having one rc file, > and there was no concept of a gui version. I think I jumped on the > vim

Re: gvim on cygwin/xfree inherits height of xterm

2015-09-17 Thread toothpik
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:23:51AM +, Paul wrote: > If I issue the the gvim command from an xterm, it has is bigger/taller than > the the standard size that we have all come to know and love over the > decades. Its size depends on the xterm that issued the command. If this is > not the

Re: gvim on cygwin/xfree inherits height of xterm

2015-09-17 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:10 PM, toothpik wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:23:51AM +, Paul wrote: >> If I issue the the gvim command from an xterm, it has is bigger/taller than >> the the standard size that we have all come to know and love over the >> decades. Its

Re: gvim on cygwin/xfree inherits height of xterm

2015-09-17 Thread Paul
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:10 PM, toothpik gmail.com> wrote: ! try putting ! ! -geometry 95x45 ! ! as a startup option (or whatever numbers seem appropriate for you) ! -- see ! ! :h gui_x11 ! ! for an explanation ! Hmmm, that works pretty good. The default (from the non-cygwin gvim)

Re: gvim on cygwin/xfree inherits height of xterm

2015-09-17 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Paul wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:10 PM, toothpik gmail.com> > wrote: > ! try putting > ! > ! -geometry 95x45 > ! > ! as a startup option (or whatever numbers seem appropriate for you) > ! -- see > ! > ! :h gui_x11 > ! > !

gvim on cygwin/xfree inherits height of xterm

2015-09-16 Thread Paul
If I issue the the gvim command from an xterm, it has is bigger/taller than the the standard size that we have all come to know and love over the decades. Its size depends on the xterm that issued the command. If this is not the desired behaviour, is there a way to get gvim to default to its