On Apr 19, 2:02 pm, bill lam wrote: > I encountered similar issue. I guess for console vim, the variable > 'columns' (and also 'lines') is only meant for reporting rather than > setting because vim itself cannot change the geometry of the terminal > emulator.
Er, no. For me, if I start gnome-terminal with 80 columns, run vim and type :set columns=100, the gnome-terminal window is resized, and on exiting vim persists with 100 columns, and COLUMNS=100 in the environment. SIGWINCH signals fly about to tell processes about window size changes, I wonder if the OP has this disabled or trapped, confusing things. regards, John -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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 Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/subscribe?hl=en
