Re: Suggestion to take more advantage of GUI elements

2012-08-26 Fir de Conversatie Hans Tovetjärn
On 26 August 2012 10:14, John Beckett wrote: > Vim is written and managed by Bram Moolenaar (with many other > excellent contributions). Björn Winckler manages MacVim. Anyone > can create a patch to add a feature, but for that feature to be > accepted into the main distribution, there would need t

RE: Suggestion to take more advantage of GUI elements

2012-08-26 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Andy Wokula wrote: > If it's just about the size of the LineNr font, you can have > it changed: > :hi LineNr font=XXX > > where XXX is a 'guifont' argument, > :set gfn? Amazing! That works, although in a quick test it appears that the line number characters occupy the same width and heig

Re: Suggestion to take more advantage of GUI elements

2012-08-26 Fir de Conversatie Andy Wokula
Am 25.08.2012 13:49, schrieb Hans Tovetjärn: Hi! I've been using a few GUI versions of Vim and most of them seem to simply act as a wrapper while everything else remain the same. If one already uses Vim one is probably familiar enough with the various keybindings and commands to make navigating

RE: Suggestion to take more advantage of GUI elements

2012-08-26 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Hans Tovetjärn wrote: > My knowledge is rather limited when it comes to C so it's > difficult for me to estimate how much effort introducing > something like this would take (which is part of the reason > for me asking - curiosity). As Ingo mentioned, any GUI feature is likely to be resisted becau

Re: Suggestion to take more advantage of GUI elements

2012-08-25 Fir de Conversatie Hans Tovetjärn
On Saturday den 25 August 2012 at 20.24, Ingo Karkat wrote: > Your proposal sounds innocent enough: Let's make all of this optional, so > people > can opt out of it. But please consider that this makes everything costlier: > more > configuration, more code = more interactions = more bugs, more te

Re: Suggestion to take more advantage of GUI elements

2012-08-25 Fir de Conversatie Ingo Karkat
On 25-Aug-2012 13:49:15 +0200, Hans Tovetjärn wrote: > Hi! > > I've been using a few GUI versions of Vim and most of them seem to > simply act as a wrapper while everything else remain the same. If one > already uses Vim one is probably familiar enough with the various > keybindings and commands

Suggestion to take more advantage of GUI elements

2012-08-25 Fir de Conversatie Hans Tovetjärn
Hi! I've been using a few GUI versions of Vim and most of them seem to simply act as a wrapper while everything else remain the same. If one already uses Vim one is probably familiar enough with the various keybindings and commands to make navigating menus with a mouse somewhat redundant. Wo