It's wonderful that MacVim works with Lion already. I've built from the lion branch, and noticed a few bugs or less-than-fully-desirable aspects of Lion's native fullscreen wrt MacVim.
All of the following results even after doing mvim -u NONE -U NONE and having no ~/.vim folder, except where otherwise noted. 1. Fire up MacVim, then enter fullscreen. No toolbar, which is correct behavior. Now move the mouse up to where the menubar would be. The menubar appears (which is correct), but also the MacVim toolbar appears, which is incorrect. Why is that incorrect? Because, it happens even if you have a minimal .gvimrc with "set go=" in it to remove all toolbars and scrollbars. 2. Fire up MacVim, then enter fullscreen. Notice how the original size of the MacVim window stays there while a giant rectangle slowly grows behind it. To really make it noticeable, and to bring about just how ugly this is, go from non-fullscreen to fullscreen with a dark colorscheme in play (like a black background). Then you see a white rectangle slooowly growing behind your original black rectangle. 3. This might be a problem with Lion, not MacVim, but here goes. With MacVim quit, set the Dock to show and hide automatically. Keep the mouse away from the dge of the screen so that the dock is hidden. Now fire up MacVim and enter fullscreen. The Dock is still hidden, which is correct behavior. Now move your mouse over to where the Dock hides to bring it out of hiding. Notice that the Dock refuses to appear. This is incorrect behavior, or at least, is a surprising difference from pre-Lion MacVim. I suspect, however, that this is Lion's fault. 4. Fire up MacVim, and enter fullscreen not by mouse or key shortcut, but by doing ":set fu". You are now in fullscreen. Try to leave fullscreen by doing ":set nofu" and you will not leave fullscreen, even though you should. You can leave fullscreen with ":set invfu", which is as it should be. I've communicated privately with Björn about this, but it's worth saying to everyone to see if I'm alone on this. The aforementioned bugs aside, I think Lion's fullscreen mode is just absolutely awful, and would dearly, dearly appreciate some option to use the old way. It's awful for two reasons (neither of which have anything essentially to do with MacVim rather than some other app): (a) It *forces* you to swtich Spaces. WTF?! Every single day when using MacVim, I have one MacVim window in fullscreen, and also at least one other MacVim window open in addition (whether in fullscreen or not), and need to toggle quickly between them with Cmd-`, or look at them simultaneously (with the nonfull one in the foreground, small, and the full one in the background. This is just too useful to lose. Not to mention that *which* Space your fullscreen one goes to seems a bit unpredictable when you're using lots of spaces. (b) The animation for switching in and out of fullscreen is so unbelievably slow that it's very annoying. And I don't have a slow machine. My stopwatch records around 1.33-1.5 seconds to transition, on more than one machine. This is simply unacceptable. It's pointless "eye-candy" that slows down one's workflow. This is espeically annoying when one frequently flips between full and non-full. I found that with pre-Lion fullscreen, the animation can be disabled by replacing some numbers in mmfullscreenwindow.m before building so that the change is nearly instantaneous. *That's* how it should work, if at all possible. I'd love an option to use the old method of fullscreen. I personally don't care whether it's a compile-time option, or some checkbox in the preference pane, or if both ways are always available with two different key shortcuts in the menu. I don't care if Lion-mode is there as long as I don't have to use it. -gmn -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" 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
