Daniel Harding wrote: > >> The attached patch is a follow-up to patch 7.3.117 (Problem: When > >> changing the font size, only MS-Windows limits the window size. > >> Solution: Also limit the window size on other systems. (Roland > >> Puntaier)). That patch fixed the problem that on non-MS-Windows > >> systems, increasing the font size could cause the gVim window to grow > >> larger than the physical screen. > >> > >> A similar problem exists on non-MS-Windows systems when setting lines or > >> columns. According to the documentation for 'lines' ( or 'columns'), > >> "Vim limits the number of lines [columns] to what fits on the screen." > >> This is true on MS-Windows, but not true on other systems (in my case, > >> Linux). The attached patch makes the behavior consistent with the > >> documentation on all systems. > > > > Does this work correctly when Vim stretches over more than one monitor? > > Sorry it has taken me so long to get back on this. Based on my testing, > I don't think the behavior on non-MS-Windows systems is any worse with > the patch than previously. Here's the behavior I observed with multiple > monitors: > > On MS-Windows (with or without the patch), setting lines=999 causes the > number of lines to be limited to what will fit on the monitor the gVim > window is in (if the window spans multiple monitors, one of them is > selected and the window is moved to that monitor, but I have not been > able to determine by what method the selection is made). > > On Linux (Gentoo) without the patch, setting lines=999 actually gives > 999 lines and sends the bottom of the window well past the bottom of the > screen. With the patch, setting lines=999 limits the number of lines to > what will fit in the total height of all the monitors (e.g. if the > desktop is extended onto two monitors side-by-side, the height of the > tallest monitor; if the desktop is extended onto two monitors one above > the other, the combined height of the monitors). > > So while the behavior with the patch on Linux doesn't exactly match > MS-Windows in the multiple-monitor case, I believe it is certainly no > worse than before the patch, and in the single-monitor case, definitely > does what the documentation says, whereas without the patch, the > behavior did not match the documentation.
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