When I tried this on macvim 7.3 (snapshot 62 / 15.8.2010) all seemed fine.
On linux gvim 7.3 (15.8.2010) I had to resize the window for everything to
snap into place as expected.

This might be a silly solution but you can try to give this a go:
set co=155
:78 vs
set co=156

-- Martin


Le 4 mars 2012 19:25, Michael Ludwig <[email protected]> a écrit :

> mascip schrieb am 04.03.2012 um 21:32 (+0000):
>
> > I want to open gVim with a window split in two,
> > and i want to be able to set the size of both windows (to 78, but
> > that's not the point).
> >
> > How can i do this?
> >
> > I tried to first set the number of columns of the unique window,
> > and then split it to the right size,
> > but it doesn't split to the size i specified, at all.
> > Why is that?
>
> In GVim 7.3 (27.10.2010) on Windows, your commands beloew work fine,
> producing a split window that looks like 78 columns (haven't counted).
>
> > Here is what i did :
> > set co=156          " window's number of columns
> > :78 vs                  " open with 2 vertical windows
>
> To split the window in two even halves, do C-w v. That won't start Vim
> with the split in place, but it's just two keystrokes, so maybe is good
> enough.
>
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> Michael Ludwig
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