Re: Left margin in gVim

Hi Mikhail!

On Mo, 10 Apr 2017, Mikhail V wrote:

> On Monday, 10 April 2017 13:08:26 UTC+2, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > Hi Mikhail!
> >
> > On Sa, 08 Apr 2017, Mikhail V wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > there was an old thread about left margin in VIM.
> > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/muxfGRp86zE/VokJ7LJqIIIJ
> > >
> > > So the proposal was supposed to help with setting up a left margin in VIM
> > > and here are two related discussions on Stackoverflow:
> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2531904/how-do-i-increase-the-spacing-of-the-line-number-margin-in-vim
> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7893390/how-to-change-the-left-margin-in-gvim
> > >
> > > In original thread Christian Brabandt made a patch for it and I am
> > > not sure whether the feature was supposed to be added or not in
> > > future releases. I have read Vim 8 new features documents but
> > > seems that there is nothing about it? (I still use version 7.4)
> > > Probably there is something added that adresses this or planned?
> > >
> > > In two words, the issue description:
> > > If I show line numbers, the text in main window is very close
> > > to the numbers, namely only 1 char gap. The idea was to add
> > > a possibility to increase the gap in some way, and it was
> > > (still is?) impossible to do.
> >
> > I just updated the patch against current head. Getting positive feedback
> > might help getting this feature included. So please test.
> >
>
> Thanks for reply,
> I am a bit confused though, I am not so familiar with patching
> and last time I've tested your patch I applied a diff file to C sources
> and have compiled from source. I don't remember exactly what steps
> this involved.
>
> Is there some step-by step explanation how to do it?
> and which sources I would use in this case, and which patch.

Clone the vim/vim repository, download the patch, run git apply
normal_text_shift

Should apply cleanly apart from a whitespace warning. If you want to
keep this patch, while updating your repository, you need to commit it
(git com -a)

Run: configure, make && make install as usual.

Best,
Christian
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