John Little: thanks for your help; you put me on the right track. Doing a set lines, as you suggest, is necessary but not sufficient. Set columns is also needed. If you set each to a large number, the gvim pane expands in the affected dimension as much as it can, just the right thing. So :set lines=500 and :set columns=500 has the effect I want.
Thanks again for your help. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Donald Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > Running gvim 7.4.591 on a FreeBSD 10.1 system (or 7.4.617 on an > up-to-date Arch Linux system), I attempt to reduce the font size > (using Edit->Set font) from the default 10-point Monospace to > 8-points, for the purpose of getting more text on the screen. The > response, surprisingly, is to reduce the size of the pane within the > gvim window, thus displaying the same amount of text in a smaller > area. Is there a way to get the effect I want with gvim, perhaps by > restoring the pane to full size? > > I did succeed in achieving something like what I want with vim by > adjusting the xterm font size, but for what I am going now, gvim is > preferable. Also, xterm provides only a few font-size choices; I'd > prefer the finer granularity available in gvim. > > /Don Allen -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
