lun, 19 Apr 2010, John Little skribis: > > On Apr 19, 2:02 pm, bill lam wrote: > > I encountered similar issue. I guess for console vim, the variable > > 'columns' (and also 'lines') is only meant for reporting rather than > > setting because vim itself cannot change the geometry of the terminal > > emulator. > > Er, no. For me, if I start gnome-terminal with 80 columns, run vim > and type :set columns=100, the gnome-terminal window is resized, and > on exiting vim persists with 100 columns, and COLUMNS=100 in the > environment. SIGWINCH signals fly about to tell processes about > window size changes, I wonder if the OP has this disabled or trapped, > confusing things.
I think that client can request window manager to change size but it is always up to window manager to determine the final result. I suspect that vim did not verify the actual geometry after set columns. I've never browse the relevant vim source code thus this is just a wild guess. I use dwm which is a tilt window manager, when I start vim it reports columns=113, I can :set columns=200 it completed without complaining and :set column? gave 200, but the actual console size cannot and was never changed. The status bar then spread into 2 lines. -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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 Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/subscribe?hl=en
