stop new windo from tiling?

[pixelterra]

When I hit cmd+n I get a new window. However they always tile, so that
after 3 new windows, the window is partially off the screen. And I
have to use my mouse (ewe) to move it back to visible.

Any way to change this behavior. This doens't happen in Firefox...

[björn]

2009/8/17 pixelterra:

This is fixed in the snapshot version. Download it from:

http://code.google.com/p/macvim/wiki/Snapshot

Björn

[Benjamin Moses Lieb]

Thanks for the recommendation. I've changed to the most recent
snapshot. I suppose the current behavior is better, as the windows
don't go "off-screen". But they kind of appear in random locations,
and overlap. Why not just open them up directly on top of each other
like firefox. I know this sounds nitpicky, but since the window has no
border, and I use :colorscheme torte, I get a bunch of black on black
on black towards the bottom of the screen, and it's hard to actually
"click" on the window I want. So I dont' see the benefit of any kind
of tiling here. Plus I just use cmd+` to change windows in the active
application.

Anyway, don't mean to complain, this is just a recommendation, and
great work on the project. I guess since window management is Mac is a
bit of a sore spot for me, I'm trying to mitigate that with my
favorite editor. : )

[Matt Tolton]

You might try Window Wrangler to let you move windows using your keyboard.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/windowwrangler.html

[Tony Mechelynck]

In addition to all that has already been suggested, another
possibility would be to change _your_ behaviour, and use ":new" or
":sview" (or :tabedit or :tab sview) to open a new window (or a new
tab) in the existing gvim, rather than a new gvim screen using Cmd-n


Best regards,
Tony.
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