Spanning Multiple Monitors

[Mark Chandler]

I just downloaded the latest release (snapshot-51). Maximizing MacVim
works great. What doesn't work so well is the ability to span multiple
monitors. It appears to have a size limit based on a single monitor. I
have some files with data I want to view in one long line across
multiple monitors. It works fine to span multiple monitors when
running vim from a terminal window, but I would rather use MacVim if
possible. Is this possible?

thanks,
-Mark

[björn]

2009/12/3 Mark Chandler:

I have written the code to only maximize to one screen because I'm not
sure how this should be handled with multiple monitors.

Do you simply want to be able to resize a window manually to span two
screens, or do you want the "green blob" button to maximize to both
windows?

What happens when the resolutions on the screens do not match? Should
the smaller be used to constrain the size? Do you have to take into
consideration of the layout of the screens? What if there are more
than two screens?

I'm just not sure how to answer these types of questions (and this was
just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are other problems).

Björn

[Mark Chandler]

Thanks for the rapid reply.

Ideally, I would like to simply be able to re-size a window manually
to span multiple monitors. If the monitors are different resolutions
or different sizes then that would be my issue. Right now, it appears
to limit the manually re-sizing to the maximum of the current monitor
size even though I can move the window to span multiple monitors. If
it worked like Terminal that would be perfect (Manually re-size across
any number of monitors. The "green blob" maximizes to the monitor
which has the most Terminal window real-estate).

thanks,
-Mark

[björn]

2009/12/3 Mark Chandler:

>
> Ideally, I would like to simply be able to re-size a window manually
> to span multiple monitors. If the monitors are different resolutions
> or different sizes then that would be my issue. Right now, it appears
> to limit the manually re-sizing to the maximum of the current monitor
> size even though I can move the window to span multiple monitors. If
> it worked like Terminal that would be perfect (Manually re-size across
> any number of monitors. The "green blob" maximizes to the monitor
> which has the most Terminal window real-estate).

That sounds reasonable...I'll look into it.

Thanks for the suggestion,
Björn

[Ted Pavlic]

> Ideally, I would like to simply be able to re-size a window manually
> to span multiple monitors. If the monitors are different resolutions

+1


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