linda.s wrote:
After I set textwidth=78 in the .gvimrc and .vimrc, I opened my vim
editor and the cursor ends at column 68. Everytime I need manaually
drag the editor to make it column 78. Is there a way to make the
editor the desired size (column 78)?
'textwidth' is about where lines of text will be broken (by a hard
end-of-line) if you type text without ever hitting the <Return> key. It has
nothing to do with the width of the editor screen.
You can set 'lines' and 'columns' to the desired (vertical and horizontal,
respectively) number of character cells from one edge of the editing area to
the other, but if you use values which make the editor screen larger than your
display screen, gvim will resize itself down.
This also means that by setting arbitrary large values what one gets is, in
effect, a maximized window: my vimrc includes (among other things)
if has("gui_running")
if has("gui_gtk2")
set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 9
elseif [...]
[...]
endif
[...]
set lines=99999 columns=99999
else
[...]
endif
but I end up with "only" 48 lines by 142 columns because anything more would
be bigger than the display (1024x768 pixel, 30x23 cm, minus about 18 mm at the
bottom for the taskbar).
Best regards,
Tony.
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