On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:20:44 -0800, Linda A W wrote: > Maybe a better question would be something along the lines of > do you think it would be possible for vim to function as well as a 10 > year old copy of MS-Word when using a proportional font and allow one > to edit a text document with such?
Why compare a text editor to a word processor? You can't stick pictures into Vim either, but no-one moans about that (and rightly so). > *bristling* at rocks being prepared for inevitably > stoning...again...so old. Long live proportional fonts!!! So sad > favorite editor doesn't have option to allow...(I know, it would be > nontrivial to support, as a move 'down' would mean what? down to > position on screen most likely, but it wouldn't mean you'd end up on > the same column on the line below as you were on the line above.... > > Quite a few nibble to overcome. Tabs would have to adapt to > fixed positions, not fixed # of space equivalents. Might be doable > in stages...dunno. I'm not a 'xprt in vim internals. But it sure > would make help vim retain its crown as editor of choice for many in > years to come. Personally I'd rather the time and effort that would be wasted adapting Vim to support proportional fonts was instead directed towards making it even more featureful for what it is designed to do - edit text. Spencer ps Are you the same Linda who got into a strop last year when being asked not to send out messages in HTML text? -- <<< Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines >>> 8:41pm up 167 days 3:41, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.19, 0.16 Registered Linux User #232457 | LFS ID 11703 -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
