> Which is by no means going to “end patched fonts madness”. This is > what I call “useless”: Well lets say I want to add icons to the completion popup menu which indicates item type (function, class, member, ...). I should pick up a character range not used by any of the existing patch font plugins to avoid conflicts, patch most widely used fonts with the new characters to make plugin appealing to the user. And what if someone uses https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons this plugin and wants to add mine. Lets create a patched fonts with all possible plugins which need custom glyphs for all common fonts. And require user to patch its font by himself if its isn't in that list. Madness!!!
> many if not most users are using Vim from terminal, also there are many > powerline users that use it for tmux or their shell. Where did you get that statistics from? In our company almost everyone uses gvim. I personally use terminal vim only when ssh-ed into remote machine. > It is easier to continue requiring patched fonts then > learn new technology just for a portion (special fonts can be > disabled, AFAIR airline even disables them by default) of a portion > (GUI and no powerline in shell/etc: if there is powerline in shell > then patched fonts are still needed) of a portion (not all users can > have most recent Vim) users. Of course its easier for existing plugins stay the way they are, but easier doesn't mean better. I am talking about out of box experience for users, who will eventually will get the latest version. And why possible cool functionalities of the GUI vim should be sacrificed to the limitations of the terminal ? For example why there is still no completion popup like this in gvim: http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/aspnet-ajax/general-information/integration-with-visual-studio/typescript-definitions/images/typescript-intellisense-declared-variable-event-handler.png -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
