2009/11/22 björn <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > I have uploaded a new snapshot of MacVim.app to > > http://code.google.com/p/macvim/wiki/Snapshot > > This is the first release to include the Core Text renderer (which has > been living in a feature branch for quite some time). This renderer > is almost an order of magnitude faster than the default renderer and > this is particularly noticeable when editing in full-screen mode. It > relies on Vim to handle drawing of composing characters which means > more predicable behavior (compared with other Vim GUIs) but this also > means that even if a font has special glyphs which includes the > composing characters these will not be used. Thus the default > renderer may look better if you are editing scripts will lots of > composing characters. Also, there are still some display issues that > I have not yet managed to fix (e.g. try ":set go+=l" or resizing with > the mouse, to see what I mean). On the flip side, transparency is > supported on 10.6 (only matters if you compile your own binary), > undercurls (as well as underlines) are supported, modeless selection > works, and probably other stuff that I can't think of right now. > > Anyway, to try out the Core Text renderer, simply go in to the > Advanced preferences and make sure the "experimental renderer" is > ticked. I use it exclusively these days.
One negative report on the new renderer: the option 'guifontwide' seems to have stopped working. :-( Best regards, Yongwei -- Wu Yongwei URL: http://wyw.dcweb.cn/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
