All Vim GUIs describe their screen sizes in terms of character cells. Some of them (including IIRC GTK2 and GTK3; I'm not sure about Windows and I don't know about MacVim) fill up the whole display when you click the "Maximize" button in one of the top corners, but in any case this only adds a few unused pixels along the borders, because Vim basically works with fixed-size character cells, using one cell for most characters, two cells for "wide CJK" characters, and between one and 'tabstop' cells for a hard tab, but never a noninteger number of cells. Even GTK2/GTK3 gvim, which can use any font, look ugly when using a proportional font, because the character cells are still of fixed size, which means that "wider" characters like m look cramped while "narrower" characters like i and l (small I and small L) seem to be surrounded by too much empty space. This property of using character cells of fixed size (a size which, in GUI Vim like gvim and MacVim, can only be changed by changing the 'guifont' setting) is so basic a property of Vim (and of Legacy vi before it IIUC) that I expect it never to change for as long as Vim will exist.
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