created by

Salman Halim

script type

utility

description

History: 1.0:  Initial version 1.1:  Added mapping <leader>tog to toggle the behavior of observing fixed window heights.  If disabled, vertically split windows can be used without a problem.  Added two functions, WindowSizesEnabled and WindowSizesMaxEnabled, which return whether fixed sizes are observed and whether window maxing is enabled, respectively. Plugin to keep the vertical sizes of windows within specifications.  For example, if you're using the Decho.vim plugin, you could force the DBG window to always be 10 lines high and for all other windows to automatically maximize upon entry.  Or, you could specify explicit sizes for two windows and let all the remaining space be shared equally among the other windows. This is a bit different from using equalalways and winheight=999 because it will always honor the vertical height settings of individual windows, using the maximizing or equalization only on those windows that don't have anything set explicitly. Caveat (and it's a big one):  No support for vertical splits.  If you have a vertical split, the behavior is undefined (well, it's not undefined, but it's ugly). Usage (default mappings): <leader>max:  Toggle whether windows without an explicit fixed size will automatically maximize upon entry or whether all un-fixed-size windows will simply share the vertical space left over once the fixed windows have taken their share of the space. <leader>fix:  If the current window has a preferred fixed vertical size, remove it, allowing this window to expand and contract according to the g:WindowSizes_windowMax setting. <leader>tog:  Toggle the fixed-window-size behavior; the <leader>max behavior is controlled separately.  If fixed-window-sizes are not being observed, then all windows are maximized blindly upon entering (without regard to their preferred height) if maximizing is enabled. <s-up>:  Increases the current windows's size by the value of the WindowSizes_increment variables (see below); using this mapping results in fixing the window height. <s-down>:  Decreases the current windows's size by the value of the WindowSizes_increment variables (see below); using this mapping results in fixing the window height. Variables (configuration): g:WindowSizes_windowMax:  If 1, then windows are maximized (the <leader>max mapping merely toggles this value between 1 and 0). b:preferredWindowSize:  If defined, the fixed vertical size of the current window -- the window will be this size vertically (tweaked by the <leader>fix, <s-up> and <s-down> mappings).  If not defined, a prompt is displayed for the user to specify a fixed vertical height for the current window where the current height is used as the default value (hit <ESC> to get out of it). g:WindowSizes_increment:  If defined, this is the increment by which to increase or decrease the current window's size if using the <s-up> or <s-down> mappings.  If not defined, 5 is used. b:WindowSizes_increment:  If defined in a given window, this is the increment by which to increase or decrease the current window's size when using the <s-up> or <s-down> mappings.  If not defined, the global version (g:WindowSizes_increment) is used (if even THAT's not defined, 5 is used). Functions (for use in the statusline, for example): WindowSizesEnabled:  Returns 1 if the preferred heights of windows is currently being observed (toggle with the <leader>tog mapping). WindowSizesMaxEnabled:  Returns 1 if the current window is going to get as much vertical real estate as possible (taking into consideration the WindowSizesEnabled setting and the presence of other windows). Tips: - Always have at least one window without a specified size so it can take   over the remaining vertical space. - Always make sure that the total size of the fixed windows is less than the   actual number of lines visible on-screen!  (The behavior otherwise is   undefined -- that is, not tested by me.) - To restore a window to not having a preferred size, unlet   b:preferredWindowSize (just use the <leader>fix mapping). TODO: - Observe the 'laststatus' value. - Figure out how to change all the global variables to script or some such   so they don't pollute the global variable pool.

install details

Pop into your plugin directory; see the variables section for potential configuration (though none is explicitly required).

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
WindowSizes.vim	1.2	2006-02-22	6.0	Salman Halim	Added the ability to toggle the behaviour on or off.
WindowSizes.vim	1.1	2004-05-26	6.0	Salman Halim	Added ability to disable the behavior where preferred heights are observed -- useful with vertically split windows (not perfect, but at least vertical splits are usable now).  Added two functions to return whether the main sizing behavior as well as the window maxing are enabled.
WindowSizes.vim	1.0	2004-05-25	6.0	Salman Halim	Initial upload

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