Re: gvim on cygwin/xfree inherits height of xterm

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:10 PM, toothpik <toothpik6 <at> gmail.com>
wrote:
! try putting
!
! -geometry 95x45
!
! as a startup option (or whatever numbers seem appropriate for you)
! -- see
!
! :h gui_x11
!
! for an explanation
!

Hmmm, that works pretty good. The default (from the non-cygwin gvim)
seems to be 80x25. However, I think it might be beneficial to avoid
X11 specific approaches simply because I have a bad habit of using
both X11 and Windows gvims. I appreciate the idea and knowledge,
though.

Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck <at> gmail.com> writes:
! You could also (instead of -geometry which is not recognized on
! every GUI flavour on every platform) set 'lines' and 'columns' in
! your gvimrc if you have one, or between "if has('gui_running')" and
! the corresponding endif in your vimrc. For instance, to have gvim
! start in fullscreen (or a fraction of a character cell inside
! fullscreen):
!
! if has('gui_running')
! set lines=999 columns=9999
! endif
!
! has('gui_running') will be zero when remaining in console mode, and
! nonzero (probably 1) in GUI mode, or when starting in order to go to
! GUI mode. In the latter case, 'lines' and 'columns' (and 'guifont'
! and…) are remembered, and used once the GUI has started. This
! mechanism is common to all Vim GUI flavours on all platforms.

Interesting. My decades old vimrc script uses has("gui"). Looks like
things have gotten much more sophisticated.

! Vim will not let 'lines' and 'columns' exceed what is possible on
! your screen: for instance, I set them as above in my vimrc, and
! after gvim has started (and taking my 'guifont' into account), I
! find myself with lines=68 columns=180 which fill my X11 1280x1024
! display nicely.
!
! See
! :help 'lines'
! :help 'columns'
! :help feature-list (read §2 then scroll down to gui_running)

I like this solution. I will stick it into gvimrc and conditionally
set lines/columns if has("gui"). If the running vim doesn't
has("gui"), then it is a text terminal, and things will look saner
if lines/columns was inherited from the text terminal.

Thank you, Tony.

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