How to determine the x and y position of the Vim text window on screen

[Lubos Pintes]

Hello,
We have functions winwidth(winnr) and winheight(winnr).
I thing that winleft(winnr) and wintop(winnr), are missing. Perhaps I
greatly overlooked something, I don't know how to determine where the
window with concrete winnr starts.
Any help how to determine window coordinates greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[toothpik]

if you know all those win_ functions I'm surprised you don't also know
about the winpos command -- without arguments it tells you the current
(gui) window position -- with x and y arguments it will position the
window for you

see

:h winpos

for the gory details

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[Lubos Pintes]

Hi,
I tried to be as clear as possible, but I am realizing that I was not
clear enough, sorry about that.
I talked about text window, not GUI window.
For example, if I issue the ":split file" command, the window area is
split, this doesn't affect the GUI window. At least I think so.
I am using gvim. I am trying to make it accessible, or better said,
usable with screen reader, NVDA in my case.
I am communicating with gvim through its OLE interface. I can use
information which eval can provide, but it is not enough for proper
usability.
I had some success, but I need to handle a situation when several
windows are on the screen. Again, when text area is split to several
windows.
I don't care about GUI window, it is simulating the console. I am only
interested in text area. I need to identify text window dimensions. So
for example, if only one window is displayed, it starts on (1, 1) and
has a width of 80 and height of 25. Also it has a number 1.
But what if I split the text area say to 4 windows? How can I
algorithmically determine window positions?
Hopefully I explained what I need. And if I am stupid and I overlooked
something obvious, then sorry again.

Dňa 18. 12. 2014 o 17:19 toothpik napísal(a):

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You may use pyeval('vim.current.window.col') and pyeval('vim.current.window.row'), same with py3eval. Requires +python (+python3 for py3eval) and running :python import vim (:python3 import vim) prior to using function.

You may check out the code used for implementing __getattribute__ slot function for vim.Window object to create a patch for wincol() and winrow(). At the time I was writing patch that added col and row vim.Window attributes nothing like this existed in VimL.
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[Shidong Wang]

在 2014年12月19日星期五 UTC+8下午2:18:46，ZyX写道：

Hello, any update on this topic? I want to use vim script to get the windows position instead of using `pyeval('vim.current.window.col') `.

[Christian Brabandt]

On Sa, 07 Jul 2018, Shidong Wang wrote:

> Hello, any update on this topic? I want to use vim script to get the windows position instead of using `pyeval('vim.current.window.col') `.

What exactly is your problem?

Best,
Christian
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[Shidong Wang]

I want to get the position of a window, but my vim has no +py/+py3 support.

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[tooth pik]

are you looking for :winpos?

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[Tony Mechelynck]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 1:30 AM, tooth pik <toot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> are you looking for :winpos?

No, according to earllier posts in this thread he doesn't want to know
the pixel position of the Vim screen relative to the desktop, but the
position in character cells of the current window (containing one view
on one buffer) relative to the Vim screen.

Best regards,
Tony.

[Christian Brabandt]

And what :py commands have you been using to get the information? I'll
have a look how hard that would be to add this information to
getwininfo()

Best,
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[Christian Brabandt]

On Sa, 14 Jul 2018, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> And what :py commands have you been using to get the information? I'll
> have a look how hard that would be to add this information to
> getwininfo()

Looks like patch 8.1.0184 might solve the problem?

Best,
Christian
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