>>1. How to setup my gvim to open to the maximal size when I start it?
>How do you open gvim? If you start by clicking the icon, you may >right click the icon and find an option regarding the size when >starting in property (I'm not using win XP now so I'm not sure about >the exact option). I had a similar problem for a long time. On this machine here, for some reason, I got it to start out maximised right off (luck?), but ironically, on my 98SE laptop, I can't do *anything* to get it to start off maximised. I tried the icon in the traybar-thingy, in the "Start" menu, anyplace/everyplace I could find it, set the properties to start off maximised, but it insisted on being a resizeable window. Only Tony's suggestion to try the 'simalt ~x' worked, but even so, I can see it starting out as a "window", then jiggling a bit then filling out to fullsize. Point being, the simalt thing worked for me. Not quite as I wanted it to (ie, to start out maximised, not resize after loading up), but it still works.
