On Friday 01 May 2009 2:23 pm, Matt Wozniski wrote: > > 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.
looking in my crystal ball, i foresee people tying multiple guide columns to the columns of those variable width tabs that are currently struggling for acceptance, writing scripts to set them both at the same time, and moving them around to suit the width of the data in their tables sc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
