Hi! I've been using a few GUI versions of Vim and most of them seem to simply act as a wrapper while everything else remain the same. If one already uses Vim one is probably familiar enough with the various keybindings and commands to make navigating menus with a mouse somewhat redundant.
Wouldn't it be neat if certain elements, such as the line numbers column, window split borders and statusline could be replaced with graphical such? I'm thinking that such settings would be separate from the "normal", e.g. :numbers and :guinumbers, to preserve the status quo for those who prefer it looking the same as in a terminal. As an example I find editors that display the line numbers in a smaller font size make them less obtrusive. This is (probably) not possible in Vim today as far as I know - it'd most likely screw up the font rendering, but if such data could be passed on to the GUI it could be done. It'd still be the same Vim, but when you run GVim it'd actually take advantage of GTK/Qt/Cocoa/etc. Best regards, Hans Tovetjärn -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
