Elliot Shank wrote:
A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Elliot Shank wrote:
Can't you hit the corresponding letter? [O]pen readonly, (E)dit
anyway, (R)ecover, (Q)uit, (A)bort, (D)elete
Nope. The dialog is completely unresponsive to any key other than
return/enter.
There is also the c flag in 'guioptions' if you prefer text
(command-line) dialogs to GUI popup dialogs. But I'm not sure whether
that flag has any effect in M$W.
Yes, that works, so it's what I'll go with for now.
But what's the point of a GUI if it doesn't do things in a gooey way? :]
What's the point of a GUI if one doesn't want to use the mouse? What's
the point of a Mac, for that matter, if one doesn't want to use the mouse?
(Just kidding.)
Change the application title for each vim instance to be what it
would be for a OS-level window in other OSs so that they're
differentiable. (Yeah, I'm probably repeating what a lot of other
people have requested, but...)
see ":help --servername". That setting defines the "program name" as
seen on the titlebar. If you don't edit the same file in different Vim
instances, the filename displayed on the titlebar will also help you
differentiate them.
The Mac version of Vim does not support the +clientserver build option
and thus doesn't support that command-line option.
Not even on MacOsX with X11?
Anyway, that wouldn't do any good for Vim instances started by the Finder.
You don't understand: switching between windows and switching between
applications are two different things on the Mac. Using command-tab
switches between applications; command-` switches between windows within
an application. When command-tabbing between applications, all you get
is the application name; this isn't anything specific to Vim. It's how
all Mac apps work, e.g., if you've got a word processor with multiple
documents/windows open, all you'll be able to see when switching is the
application's name. Yes, the Vim window title-bar reflects all the
usual information you see in it on other platforms, but that does you no
good when switching between Vim instances.
Unlike some programs like Firefox (where all windows are handled by a
single instance of the program), in the case of gvim there is a
one-to-one correspondence between windows (as seen by the OS, I'm not
talking about split windows here) and program instances. If the
Mac-specific mechanism for switching between program instances doesn't
reflect the information gvim puts on its titlebar, then it might be a
Mac problem rather than a Vim problem. On Windows or Linux, the OS
taskbar at the bottom of my screen reflects whatever Vim has placed in
its titlebar so I have no problem discriminating between vim instances
even there; similarly, Alt-Tab also shows the information on the various
titlebars, including gvim titlebars.
Best regards,
Tony.
