It seems to be a good trade off for me. For the default column size set to 80 issue, if i assume that a fresh mac vim will show up with 80 columns (with no setting in .gvimrc), then i would say that someone who wants to have his columns to 80 is less likely to resize the window, since the behavior is the same in a terminal : mac application windows retain their size for new windows.
On Aug 28, 9:13 pm, björn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have implemented an autosave feature for MacVim so that the window > dimensions (rows&columns) are restored when opening new windows. This > feature works much like the autosave for window position: > > 1. When a new window opens and there are no other windows, its > "autosave" flag is set > 2. When the "autosave window" is resized the dimensions (rows&columns) > of that window are stored > 3. Any new window that opens will use the autosaved values for > rows&columns by default > 4. If the user changes 'lines' or 'columns' in [g]vimrc these values > take precedence > 5. Command line also takes precedence over autosave (e.g. "mvim -c > "set lines=55" works as expected) > > I think this is a great feature for newcomers, but it has at least one > drawback (that I can think of): if you only set 'lines' in your > [g]vimrc then the autosaved value for 'columns' will still be used. > > This affects me for instance, since I only set 'lines' in my gvimrc > and use the default 80 columns. One can argue that this is a minor > issue since if I start MacVim from a Terminal window with !=80 columns > then I run into the same problem. It is of course easily overcome by > adding "set co=80" to my gvimrc, but the question is not whether I can > overcome this -- it is whether the majority of MacVim users are ready > to. > > So I am asking everybody reading on this list: > > Is this feature worth adding to MacVim (to simplify things for > newcomers), or will it be too annoying to longtime users of Vim? > > Björn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
