created by

Ingo Karkat

script type

utility

description

DESCRIPTION Text files that do not have "hard" word wrapping via embedded line breaks can be cumbersome to edit in a wide editor window, as it is strenuous on the eyes to jump back and forth between begin and end of the soft-wrapped lines. The simplest solution is to resize the editor window (:set columns=80), but one may still want to have the large editor size for other edited buffers that benefit from the large screen real estate. This plugin places an empty padding window next to the current window, thereby reducing its size while maintaining the overall editor size. USAGE :LimitWindowWidth [{width}]                         Limit the window width of the current window by placing                         an empty padding window to the right. If there already                         is a padding window, its size is adapted according to                         'textwidth' / {width}, or removed if the width is so                         large that no padding is needed.

install details

INSTALLATION This script is packaged as a vimball. If you have the "gunzip" decompressor in your PATH, simply edit the *.vmb.gz package in Vim; otherwise, decompress the archive first, e.g. using WinZip. Inside Vim, install by sourcing the vimball or via the :UseVimball command.     vim LimitWindowSize*.vmb.gz     :so % To uninstall, use the :RmVimball command. DEPENDENCIES - Requires Vim 7.0 or higher. - Requires the ingo-library.vim plugin (vimscript #4433), version 1.004 or   higher.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
LimitWindowSize-1.01.vmb.gz	1.01	2013-11-29	7.0	Ingo Karkat	- Add workaround for when a :LimitWindowWidth command is issued from a still minimized GVIM in the process of restoring its window. The check for the window width then needs to be delayed until after the VimResized event. - Add dependency to ingo-library (vimscript #4433). *** You need to separately install ingo-library (vimscript #4433) version 1.004 (or higher)! ***
LimitWindowSize.vba.gz	1.00	2010-09-14	7.0	Ingo Karkat	Initial upload

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