Re: How to scroll then click in inactive window without jumping back?

On 15/11/14 00:18, Michael Henry wrote:
> All,
>
> I normally run Gvim on Linux with two vertically split windows.
> Often, I'll be editing in the first window and I want to take a
> look at something off-screen in the second window, so I hover my
> mouse over the second window and use the scroll wheel to look
> around. If I see something interesting in that inactive window
> that I'd like to interact with, I try to click in the window and
> position the cursor where I'm looking; however, the click causes
> the inactive window to first scroll back to its original
> position to make the original cursor visible, and only then does
> the click take effect. This can be frustrating, as I then need
> to find the new location again which may be several pages away.
>
> You can recreate the above scenario by starting Gvim with an
> empty buffer, then doing:
>
> ; Put 500 lines of "Inactive Window" in one buffer:
> 500iInactive Window<CR><ESC>
>
> ; Split and make an empty buffer
> <C-w><C-v>:enew<CR>
>
> ; Put 500 lines of "Active Window" in another buffer:
> 500iActive Window<CR><ESC>
>
> This leave the cursor on line #501 in each window. Now
> demonstrate the problem as follows:
>
> ; Hover mouse over "Inactive Window" and use scroll wheel
> ; to scroll back several screens toward line 1.
>
> ; Click in Inactive Window.
>
> The inactive window will scroll back to put line #501 back at
> the bottom of the screen, and only then the click will be
> accepted.
>
> Is there any way to prevent Gvim from scrolling the inactive
> window back to the original position before accepting the click?
> I've done a bunch of Googling, but I can't seem to hit upon the
> right search terms to find anyone discussing this issue (though
> I see many people who would like to solve the related problem of
> allowing the cursor on the *active* window to go off-screen when
> scrolling with the mouse wheel).
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Henry
>

What does Vim answer to
:verbose set mouse? winheight? winminheight? winwidth? winminwidth?
equalalways?

'mouse' influences what a left-click does, and the other ones influence
how splits behave when the focus goes from one window to another.


Best regards,
Tony.
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