On 26 August 2012 10:14, John Beckett <[email protected]> wrote: > Vim is written and managed by Bram Moolenaar (with many other > excellent contributions). Björn Winckler manages MacVim. Anyone > can create a patch to add a feature, but for that feature to be > accepted into the main distribution, there would need to be a > really good reason related to fixing a problem, or adding > something important. Even 10 new lines of code presents a > problem in added complexity and testing requirements, > particularly given the wide variety of systems that Vim runs on. > > You are correct that a design where customisable skins are > available would be nice, but it's not going to happen.
Ah yes, I probably underestimate the amount of work that would be required (you know, blissful lack of experience and the great ideas that follow). No matter what sage advice I’ll be given I doubt I’ll be able to shrug off this idea anytime soon. ;) Unless I get wise I’ll make a personal fork at some point just to see for myself how it all works. Winckler’s MacVim seemed to have certain GUI-ish features that I don’t recall being present in GVim - but I currently don’t have the latter installed so don’t take my word for it. On 26 August 2012 12:05, Andy Wokula <[email protected]> wrote: > If it's just about the size of the LineNr font, you can have it changed: > :hi LineNr font=XXX > > where XXX is a 'guifont' argument, > :set gfn? > > no example given here, it very much depends on the system. > > In the help: > :h highlight-font Yes! This works (supposedly) on the Motif GUI (as well as Athena according to the helpfile). I heard about it on IRC and unless I’m mistaken it was some sort of glyph replacement being done. It seemed a bit like a crude workaround to me though (no offense) so that’s why I wondered about how Vim displays all of its elements, i.e. if my impression of them being separate “areas” stands. -- 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
