Re: Vim maximise weirdness

Hi A.!

On Di, 14 Mär 2017, A. S. Budden wrote:

> This is probably one of the most minor problems I've ever had with
> vim, but I thought I'd report it in case anyone understands what's
> going on here.
>
> I've just (finally) decided to upgrade to Vim 8. I initially
> installed the Windows executable version from
> https://vim.sourceforge.io/download.php#pc but found it didn't support
> python, so have compiled my own version.
>
> When I start gvim, I often want to immediately maximise the window and
> have tended to do this with a simple mapping ("map ,x :simalt ~x<CR>")
> - start gvim and hit ,x - this is pretty instinctive now! I know
> there are probably other alternatives, but I like the default being
> non-maximised and a quick key combination changing to maximised.
>
> With the newly compiled version of vim (details below), `:simalt ~x`
> doesn't do quite what I was expecting: the window gets bigger but the
> drawn area doesn't - https://snag.gy/3VfqUe.jpg
>
> Pressing Ctrl-L sorts it out, it's just slightly odd that it's not
> redrawing to fill the screen. Clicking on the maximise icon in the
> top right hand corner of the window works correctly - it's just simalt
> ~x that doesn't. Note that this was all tested with -u NONE -U NONE.
> With the current executable from the website (8.0.69), the behaviour
> is correct.
>
> I know this is a really minor gripe; I just thought it was worth mentioning.
>
> The compiler configuration I use is made up of two scripts,
> configure_vim.cmd (http://pastebin.com/QwKtCHvy) and build_vim.cmd
> (http://pastebin.com/apxqsz6f). The :version information is here:
> http://pastebin.com/raw/Gfusk1Fw

Sounds familiar
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/1vNlh9tBnCk/oP75NAT8AAAJ

Unfortunately, there is no patch yet.

Best,
Christian
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