Brett Stahlman wrote: > When :new is used *without* a count and 'equalalways' is set, the height > of all existing windows is reduced to make room for the new one. (Well, > technically, it's possible that the height of a small window will be > increased, but the bottom-line is that, because of 'equalalways', all of > the original windows will be the same height after the new window is > created. Intuitively (and on the basis of the documentation), I would > expect that when a count is supplied to :new (and 'equalalways' is set), > the result would be the same, except that the newly created window might > have a height that is different from all the others. In other words, the > new window would be allocated its requested space, then the remaining > height would be divided equally amongst the existing windows. This is > not what happens, however. In fact, the presence of a count causes Vim > to resize only the windows it has to. If N is such that the new window > will fit within the old, the height of the other (non-current) windows > is not changed at all; in fact, it works just as though 'equalalways' > were not set. This seems to contradict the Vim help on :new > (specifically, the parenthetical beginning with "and others, ...")... > > >>> > Make new window N high (default is to use half the existing > height). Reduces the current window height to create room (and > others, if the 'equalalways' option is set and 'eadirection' > isn't "hor"). > <<< > > Note that there is nothing to indicate that the "and others, ..." > parenthetical applies only when the default argument is used. Am I > misinterpreting the help, or is this a bug? Note that the same > discrepancy seems to exist for the :split command.
If you have 'equalalways' set and specify a size of a window you have a conflict. The way it's implemented the window is first split (each split window getting half the available height), then 'equalalways' is applied. If the same would be done when a size is specified then the size will be overruled by 'equalalways'. Can't have both without some special trickery. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 153. You find yourself staring at your "inbox" waiting for new e-mail to arrive. /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php