Re: A modern look for gvim (win32)

On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:44:56 AM UTC+2, Tony Mechelynck wrote:

> The problem with GUI window splitters is that they would still have to
> be exactly the width of one character cell in the current 'guifont'
> whatever it be,

Can you expand on this? Why does it need to be that wide?

> If you don't like the default look and feel of gvim, it is already
> possible to change it quite a lot by changing the 'guifont' and the
> colorscheme

Ohh, I've done this already. But it still kind of looks like something
from the 80s

> In my experience, most proposals to change Vim's or gvim's behaviour
> fundamentally

I was hoping this wouldn't be a fundamental change, but rather
something that would just enhance the look of gvim. (Possibly (at
least at first) at the cost of not being compatible with all
plugins/scripts (like those using the status line))

> Yes, in some respects Vim is a kind of dinosaur; I think that it
> descends in straight line from editors which were used on systems where
> you had no screen but a typewriter which could move the paper in one
> direction only, no other keyboard than a plain typewriter keyboard, and
> no mouse; and it is still quite feasible to use Vim without using the
> mouse or the keyboard's cursor movement keys at all (and some old Vim
> hands will tell you that _that_ is the "true" way to use Vim, indeed the
> "only right way"; I don't go that far); but with all its
> old-fashionedness it is still (IMHO) one of the very best, possibly
> *the* best plain-text editor for the 21st century.

The thing is that making gvim more modern wouldn't take away any of
that. You still have the option of using vim (i.e. in a terminal)

> Best regards,
> Tony.

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