Tobia Conforto wrote: > Hello > > I would like to know, from Björn and others, how difficult would it be > to patch the MacVim code to enable proportional font editing. > > I've gone as far as... erm, a fake screenshot in the Gimp: > http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/9909/mockup2db6.png > > Am I insane for thinking it would be nice?
It might be nice in some situations, but it really wouldn't work in Vim, at least, not without a major rewrite of almost all the text display code. Vertical cursor movements wouldn't be vertical any more; lines would be 'cut off' or wrapped at a fixed number of columns, not when they reached the edge of the window; cursor positioning is likely to go wrong as is detection of which characters mouse clicks are aimed at. And that's just the obvious stuff! I'm not sure if Bram would be willing to include such a change if someone wrote a patch for it, either--it doesn't seem to be in line with the Vim philosophy to me--and maintaining such a patch against changing Vim sources would be a lot of work even if not difficult (and it probably would be difficult!). Cheers, Ben. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
