On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Ingo Karkat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21-Oct-2010 15:15, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> On 21 October 2010 09:07, Christian Brabandt wrote: >>> On Thu, October 21, 2010 2:36 pm, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>>> To that end, this minor patch populates v:windowid with the gvim HWND >>>> under windows: >>> [...] >>> >>> What can that be used for? >> >> A quick way to retrieve the gvim window handle for utilities that use >> the window handle (i.e. for scripting with AutoHotKeys, etc.). Since >> it's defined (v:windowid) even under Windows, might as well make it >> return something useful. > > Great, I had the same idea to make v:windowid apply to more platforms than > only > X, and agree that its potential usefulness might warrant the small Win32 > implementation. > > Regarding the naming, how about v:guiwindowid, to differentiate with Vim's own > windows. After all, this variable is only for GVIM, not terminal-based Vim.
That's not the case at all. Quoting from the documentation that was added, When any X11 based GUI is running or when running in a terminal and Vim connects to the X server (|-X|) this will be set to the window ID. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]> -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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
