On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Linda W wrote:

Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
She just seems to want it as a separate window, instead of being crammed into the same Gvim application window.
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  Yep.  Many applications have the ability to detach parts of the app...

But, I don't suspect the request will be fulfilled. It'd be too complicated to implement in terminal Vim. And Gvim is structured such that there's a single top-level application window. I haven't looked, but I don't think there's a nice way to handle multiple detachable windows without rewriting (much/most of) the GUI code.
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  Really?  I thought there was an ability to tear off menus at some point?
Or am I hallucinating that?  ;-)

I believe the tear-off menus are a built-in feature of GTK+. (Where you need only specify 'true' for some "This menu can be torn off" property.) IIRC, letting other things be "tear off" isn't as simple.

I could be wrong. I thankfully haven't had to do much GTK programming in a while. Googling "GTK tear off windows" finds GtkHandleBox, so it /might/ be as simple as turning the (vim) tabs into handle boxes.

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Best,
Ben

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