On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:11:19PM EST, Albin Olsson wrote: > Hi > > Is there a setting so that I don't have to prepend my window creating > commands with 'vert' every time?
Not aware of one. > In the age of wide screen monitors vertical splitting is a lot nicer > than horizontal. Couldn't agree more. I guess horizontal splits was the best strategy in the days of terminals, when 80x24 characters was the norm and vertical splits would have resulted in most everything being wrapped over two lines. Nowadays, especially with the newer 1080p standard and its 16:9 aspect ratio, and the higher definition displays that come with it, I find that most of the stuff I look at in Vim, from code to emails, occupies roughly one fourth of the screen width and the other three fourth are left unused. Since I only use horizontal splits once I have already 2-3 vertical planes (on rare occasions) what I personally did was to create abbreviations in my vimrc, such as, cabbrev vhl vertical help and use those instead of prepending relevant ex-mode commands with ‘vert’. Not what I would call an elegant solution, but it does what I want. Another approach is to use predefined mappings of ‘split’ commands to function keys or key combos, (or define new ones), rather than typing the corresponding ex-mode commands. Otherwise, Vim's diff mode lets you specify whether you prefer vertical splits via the ‘diffopt’ option. :h diffopt Would be grateful if someone more knowledgeable could recommend a better solution. CJ -- 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
