[gvim] width and height of the main window.

[Sam Qasbah]

Hallo.

I'm an absolute beginner with vi:vim, I'm trying to learn.

How can I set gvim so that when I call the program the main window is 82
chars wide and 45 chars high?

Many thanks.

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <5183d79e$0$1600$5fc...@news.tiscali.it>,

set lines=45 columns=82

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[Bob Harris]

In article <km0mdp$f8t$1...@news.xmission.com>,

gaz...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote:

> In article <5183d79e$0$1600$5fc...@news.tiscali.it>,
> Sam Qasbah <s...@none.no> wrote:
> >Hallo.
> >
> >I'm an absolute beginner with vi:vim, I'm trying to learn.
> >
> >How can I set gvim so that when I call the program the main window is 82
> >chars wide and 45 chars high?
> >
> >Many thanks.
>
> set lines=45 columns=82

Another approach, assuming your gvim is X11 based.

gvim -geometry 82x45 file.to.edit

You can even specify the position on the screen via -geometry

gvim -geometry 82x45+60+200 # WIDTHxHEIGTH+XCORD+YCORD