Hi Mikhail! On Mo, 10 Apr 2017, Mikhail V wrote:
> On Monday, 10 April 2017 13:08:26 UTC+2, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > Hi Mikhail! > > > > On Sa, 08 Apr 2017, Mikhail V wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > there was an old thread about left margin in VIM. > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/muxfGRp86zE/VokJ7LJqIIIJ > > > > > > So the proposal was supposed to help with setting up a left margin in VIM > > > and here are two related discussions on Stackoverflow: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2531904/how-do-i-increase-the-spacing-of-the-line-number-margin-in-vim > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7893390/how-to-change-the-left-margin-in-gvim > > > > > > In original thread Christian Brabandt made a patch for it and I am > > > not sure whether the feature was supposed to be added or not in > > > future releases. I have read Vim 8 new features documents but > > > seems that there is nothing about it? (I still use version 7.4) > > > Probably there is something added that adresses this or planned? > > > > > > In two words, the issue description: > > > If I show line numbers, the text in main window is very close > > > to the numbers, namely only 1 char gap. The idea was to add > > > a possibility to increase the gap in some way, and it was > > > (still is?) impossible to do. > > > > I just updated the patch against current head. Getting positive feedback > > might help getting this feature included. So please test. > > > > Thanks for reply, > I am a bit confused though, I am not so familiar with patching > and last time I've tested your patch I applied a diff file to C sources > and have compiled from source. I don't remember exactly what steps > this involved. > > Is there some step-by step explanation how to do it? > and which sources I would use in this case, and which patch. Clone the vim/vim repository, download the patch, run git apply normal_text_shift Should apply cleanly apart from a whitespace warning. If you want to keep this patch, while updating your repository, you need to commit it (git com -a) Run: configure, make && make install as usual. Best, Christian -- Nullen werden deshalb so wichtig genommen, weil schon eine einzige Schwierigkeiten verzehnfachen kann. -- Ron Kritzfeld -- -- 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.
