On 14 March 2017 at 10:19, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi A.! > > On Di, 14 Mär 2017, A. S. Budden wrote: > >> This is probably one of the most minor problems I've ever had with >> vim, but I thought I'd report it in case anyone understands what's >> going on here. >> >> I've just (finally) decided to upgrade to Vim 8. I initially >> installed the Windows executable version from >> https://vim.sourceforge.io/download.php#pc but found it didn't support >> python, so have compiled my own version. >> >> When I start gvim, I often want to immediately maximise the window and >> have tended to do this with a simple mapping ("map ,x :simalt ~x<CR>") >> - start gvim and hit ,x - this is pretty instinctive now! I know >> there are probably other alternatives, but I like the default being >> non-maximised and a quick key combination changing to maximised. >> >> With the newly compiled version of vim (details below), `:simalt ~x` >> doesn't do quite what I was expecting: the window gets bigger but the >> drawn area doesn't - https://snag.gy/3VfqUe.jpg >> >> Pressing Ctrl-L sorts it out, it's just slightly odd that it's not >> redrawing to fill the screen. Clicking on the maximise icon in the >> top right hand corner of the window works correctly - it's just simalt >> ~x that doesn't. Note that this was all tested with -u NONE -U NONE. >> With the current executable from the website (8.0.69), the behaviour >> is correct. >> >> I know this is a really minor gripe; I just thought it was worth mentioning. >> >> The compiler configuration I use is made up of two scripts, >> configure_vim.cmd (http://pastebin.com/QwKtCHvy) and build_vim.cmd >> (http://pastebin.com/apxqsz6f). The :version information is here: >> http://pastebin.com/raw/Gfusk1Fw > > Sounds familiar > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/1vNlh9tBnCk/oP75NAT8AAAJ > > Unfortunately, there is no patch yet.
Aha, thanks Christian. Glad it's not just something I did when I compiled Vim. Hopefully a patch will appear from someone who knows their way round the vim source in due course. Al -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
