On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-05-01, Bram Moolenaar wrote: >> Pankaj Garg wrote: >> >> > On Apr 30, 9:30 am, Ben Fritz wrote: >> > > On Apr 29, 11:42 am, Bram Moolenaar wrote: >> > > >> > > > The name 'guidecolumn' starts with "gui", which is confusing, since it >> > > > also works in a terminal. 'margincolumn' perhaps? >> > > >> > > I agree. If a user uses :help gui<C-D> for example, they would NOT be >> > > expecting 'guidecolumn' to show up! > > As for the name, I don't see 'guidecolumn' as being a problem. I > doubt that anyone would confuse it with a GUI command. There are > lots of English words having the same initial letters but unrelated > meanings. ":help comm^D" shows some examples of this. > > I see two problems with 'margincolumn'. The first is that > highlighting the right margin is but one application for this > feature. The second is that 'margincolumn' implies to me that its > location automatically tracks the right margin (i.e., 'textwidth' or > 'wrapmargin') which it currently doesn't. While that tracking > feature may be added following the discussions in this thread, the > highlighting will be of the right margin only for a particular value > of 'margincolumn'.
I agree. I think that 'guidecolumn' is a much better name. Whenever people show up in freenode's #vim asking about this feature, the first phrase they use for it is "guide column" or "guide line", presumably this is because that's what other editors call it. Differing because of the aesthetics of having an option whose first 3 letters make it appear with gui options when completing from the help is just going to make things much harder for people looking for a guide column option, not significantly easier for those trying to figure out which of the gui* options they want. Also, I agree with Gary - it's not inconceivable that someone might want two guides at different spots representing different things, which would mean that the margincolumn name is much more misleading. ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
