Ok, I can see that. I was hoping that it may be part of the positioning capability (winpos, columns, guiheadroom, etc) but it was probably just wishful thinking. Not a big deal, but it's nice to have a clean, portable solution.
Thanks for taking the time to respond Gerald. Michael -------------------------------- Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 12:59:48 PM, you wrote: Lai> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Michael Fross wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Does VIM (v7) have a way to tell me the screen width from an OS point of >> view? >> I like to position gvim in a specific place on my screen and I use computers >> with different resolutions. Right now I shell out via a system call and get >> the info, but it would be much cleaner and more portable to do so without >> calling an external program. Lai> AFAIK, Vim isn't able to tell what screen resolution you're using. Lai> IMHO, screen resolution has nothing to do with Vim :) Lai> See ":help design-not". Lai> -- Lai> Gerald
