Re: automatic lines setting?

John,

redraw works, but it leaves a lot of crap at the terminal (very long,
see pastebin link here:)
http://pastebin.com/m4cecfb20

here the output counts up to 100 because I used set lines=100 instead
of 500.

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MZ

On Dec 19, 4:06 pm, John Little <john.b.lit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2:14 pm, Mathieu <lingfe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > $ head .gvimrc
> > set lines=500  " over zelous numbers of lines
> > let &lines = ((float2nr(0.85*&lines)>52)?float2nr(0.85*&lines):52)
> > ...If I issue the first two commands by hand after
> > gvim has open. It will do what I want it to do.  Why don't it work as
> > part of .gvimrc?
>
> There is an implicit redraw between them when "issue" them by hand.
> If I do
>
>     :set lines=500|echomsg &lines
>
> I get 500 in the message history, but with
>
>     :set lines=500|redraw|echomsg &lines
>
> I get 87.
>
> You could try putting a redraw in your .gvimrc, after the set
> lines=500.
>
> Regards, John

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