On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:36:25 -0700 (PDT), leandromartinez98
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I was aware of Vim reading the .vimrc file and I never expected Vim to
> resize
> my terminal window because of those options. I was expecting, on the
> other
> side, that that line was considered only in the GUI case. The fact
> that those
> lines are read and cause a weird behaviour should be avoided, since
> weird
> behaviours are always undesirable.

Those options predate the GUI. They come from the original vi, and
were used to allow users to tell vi how large a screen it was running
on. With the introduction of the GUI in Vim it became possible for
setting those options to change the size of the window, but they still
need to be available in the non-GUI environment so people can tell Vim
how much space is available to it. If you set them to values that
don't match the real terminal size there's not much Vim can do about
it except trust that you know what you're doing.

-- 
Matthew Winn

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