On Friday, April 7, 2017 at 1:46:51 AM UTC+8, L. A. Walsh wrote: > Ben Fritz wrote: > > I'm not quite sure I understand why you need another top-level > > application window. > ---- > Because it makes editing easier. I want to be able to > rearrange the windows with a mouse -- drag them. I want to be able > to drag a tab from one window to another. These are all simple actions > that have existed for over a decade in browsers. > > Creating "auto-commands" to resize windows as I enter them is > not something I can do just by dragging. I'd have to write custom > scripts to handle windows in various ways. Having to write > custom scripts to create custom windows is not something I want to > spend my time doing when I could just press a key to open a tab > in a new window. > > > From your description I think you may want to open a new tab on the > > first file with ":tab sp" and then ":vsp other_file" to get both files > > in one tab page (and you'll still have both files in the previous tab > > pages as well). When you're done, ":tabclose" and you're back to where > > you started. > ---- > Tab sp/vsp/what? I don't want to try to type & split -- I want > to use a mouse. That's a more logical action for what I'm talking about. > How would I tell it to open a tab upward and to the right of the main > window above a TTY window? > > I don't want to be constrained on how I open windows or their > geometry. I want to be able to stagger them -- diagonally or > side-by-side or over each other. Managing 10-12 files using a > keyboard-only is way too much typing -- that I can't do as fast > as moving something with a mouse. > > Due to nerve damage I don't type as fast as I used to. This > is an ease-of-use issue -- I don't want to control windows with > a keyboard. I want to control windows and their position w/a > mouse and reserve typing for content in the windows. That's the > bottom line -- I want to control window positions and visibility > with a mouse -- not a keyboard. > > Using a keyboard to navigate around a desktop is a royal pain. > That's what a mouse is for. > > As I asked above in opening a new vim-view above a tty window. > How do you intersperse output from different applications with > vim if vim is all 1 window? > > As I mentioned starting out -- this is a GUI issue -- where > one uses a mouse to control window positions. I want vim to be > able to use the window manager to manage windows so I can > have windows of other applications interspersed. > > You can't do that when vim is one large block covering most > of the screen.
Just in case, you know that the split columns and lines in Gvim can be dragged by mouse right? And this is still not what you want ? -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
