On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Ben Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
I'm curious how the OP would like to see visual block mode work with proportional fonts. -- Stand Fast, tjg. [Timothy Grant] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
