Re: automatic lines setting?

Actually it works for me if set lines is not part of the function:

set lines = 500;
func Autolines()
let &lines = max([float2nr(0.8*&lines),52])
endfunc
au GUIEnter * call Autolines()

This is in Gentoo.
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VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Dec 1 2009 02:15:17)
Included patches: 1-303
Modified by Gentoo-7.2.303

--MZ

On Dec 20, 3:31 am, John Little <john.b.lit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Earler, I said:
>
> > 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.
>
> I just tried that on windows (earlier was vim-gtk) and set lines=500|
> echomsg &lines gives 76, but adding your lines code to _gvimrc doesn't
> work, with or without a redraw.
>
> :help gui  suggests using the GUIEnter event.  I tried:
>
> func Autolines()
> set lines=500  " over zealous numbers of lines
> let &lines = ((float2nr(0.85*&lines)>52)?float2nr(0.85*&lines):52)
> endfunc
> autocmd GUIEnter * call Autolines()
>
> in my _gvimrc on windows and it seemed to work, lines was set to 64.
> I'll try it tomorrow on my vim-gtk on Kubuntu.
>
> Regards, John

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