Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Re: A modern look for gvim (win23)

On Jul 27, 12:26 am, Tobbe Lundberg <to...@tlundberg.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any attempts at making gvim (for MS Windows) look more
> modern? (Using a standard gui border for split windows, a gui-window for
> completion lists, a standard gui status bar, etc)
>
> If something like this doesn't already exist, would anyone be interested in
> me tying to code it? (Possibly even helping me out?) It would probably have
> to be maintained as a set of patches against the official vim releases.

Some of the code you would have to change is in the files window.c and
screen.c . There are a lot of global structures that are used across
multiple files. There is a lot of code that is compiled conditionally
and adding GUI windows would add many more such pieces of code unless
the Vim code is rewritten using a more object-oriented approach.
So I think that it would be a huge undertaking just to change the
current windows to GUI windows.

Marko

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