On 15-Apr-09 21:41, _Lone wrote: > On Apr 15, 11:36 am, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2009-04-15, _Lone wrote: >>> On Apr 14, 8:50 pm, Nico Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> To set 'guidecolumn' you can do >>>>> :set guidecolumn=N >>>>> where N is the column. If N is 0 then guidecolumn is turned off. It is >>>>> highly unlikely that a user would want the guidecolumn at column 0 but >>>>> the syntax seems odd so let me know if you think there can be a better >>>>> way to do this. >>>>> The patch still needs to be tested thorougly and tweaked but I wanted >>>>> to get a general idea, if you guys think it has chances of getting >>>>> accepted. >>>> Could you add that in gui mode a 1px line is drawn to the right of >>>> guidecolumn instead of highlighting the column's background? That'd be >>>> awesome (I believe there is a line drawing function already that is >>>> used to draw the squiggly lines below misspelled words in gui mode). >>>> Nico >>> If the patch gets accepted then I can try to add what you suggested, >>> if other people agree on varying behavior between console and gui >>> builds. >> I haven't tried the patch yet, but if I understand correctly, it >> would normally be used to highlight the column to the right of the >> 'textwidth' column, so that text would be within the guidecolumn >> only if the line was too long. If guidecolumn is used that way, >> then I think the 1px line should be drawn on the left side of the >> guidecolumn, not on the right side. >> >> Regards, >> Gary- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > I agree, if it is decided that in GUI build, drawing a 1px line is > better than highlighting the column background then the line should be > on the left edge of the specified column. However I feel that the > behavior should be same for CUI and GUI builds i.e. highlight the > column background but I am flexible to what others agree upon.
+1 for the 1px line in the GUI. If 'guifg' is used for the line, and 'guibg' for the column, one can have one or the other (or even both). Of course, feature parity between GUI and console is very desirable, but why ignore the superior capabilities of the GUI? The "squiggly line" undercurl highlighting (used for spell checking) is only available in the GUI, too, but it is very helpful, and similar to what other editors do. IMO, the same applies to the guidecolumn. -- regards, ingo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
