Vim can modify the mouse popup menu, and depending on your config, mouse-over
balloons.  It's not the same as full access to GUI functions, but you can do a
lot with it, maybe enough to address expectations for a combobox.

--- Thomas Michael Engelke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I've seen a "Progress 4GL"-editor (ed4win) having a killer feature: A
> combobox with all the triggers (on <eventname> of <component>),
> functions and procedures of the current file. It is implemented as a
> gui-component in the upper part of the editor.
> 
> As I guess vim does not allow the creation of components in the gui
> parts, I see in vim 7.0 the chance to use the auto completion lists
> for that matter.
> 
> I would like to set a key to open a list of all the mentioned lines at
> a fixed x/y-location. I am able to write the regex for myself but am
> not sure if and how I can accomplish the other part.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Thomas Engelke
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> 

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