On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:44:56 AM UTC+2, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > The problem with GUI window splitters is that they would still have to > be exactly the width of one character cell in the current 'guifont' > whatever it be,
Can you expand on this? Why does it need to be that wide? > If you don't like the default look and feel of gvim, it is already > possible to change it quite a lot by changing the 'guifont' and the > colorscheme Ohh, I've done this already. But it still kind of looks like something from the 80s > In my experience, most proposals to change Vim's or gvim's behaviour > fundamentally I was hoping this wouldn't be a fundamental change, but rather something that would just enhance the look of gvim. (Possibly (at least at first) at the cost of not being compatible with all plugins/scripts (like those using the status line)) > Yes, in some respects Vim is a kind of dinosaur; I think that it > descends in straight line from editors which were used on systems where > you had no screen but a typewriter which could move the paper in one > direction only, no other keyboard than a plain typewriter keyboard, and > no mouse; and it is still quite feasible to use Vim without using the > mouse or the keyboard's cursor movement keys at all (and some old Vim > hands will tell you that _that_ is the "true" way to use Vim, indeed the > "only right way"; I don't go that far); but with all its > old-fashionedness it is still (IMHO) one of the very best, possibly > *the* best plain-text editor for the 21st century. The thing is that making gvim more modern wouldn't take away any of that. You still have the option of using vim (i.e. in a terminal) > Best regards, > Tony. -- 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
