Can I use gvim in fullscreen mode?

[fdu.x...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

Can gvim be used in fullscreen mode? gvim is my favorite editor in windows
platform.

I have googled and found the script
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1669. However, it just
maximize the window. What I want is a full screen mode just like when I play
games in full screen mode, no window border, no title bar, just the edit area.

Thanks a lot.

[Andy Wokula]

fdu.x...@gmail.com schrieb:

Try Vimscript #687, "VimTweak".

e.g.
:set go& go-=m go-=T go-=r stal&
:call libcallnr("vimtweak.dll", "EnableMaximize", 1)
:call libcallnr("vimtweak.dll", "EnableCaption", 0)

When the window is really maximized you cannot click anything, you have to control
the gVim window by hand
:simalt ~
:h :simalt
or do
:call libcallnr("vimtweak.dll", "EnableMaximize", 0)
:call libcallnr("vimtweak.dll", "EnableCaption", 1)

--
Andy

[Tim Chase]

For what you describe, in Windows, not to the best of my knowledge.

If you switch to console (non-g)vim, you can use a key-chord
(control+enter or alt+enter, IIRC) to full-screen the command
window. However, this comes at a fixed-cell size, usually 80x25
or 80x50. You'll get far more screen-space character-wise in a
gvim even with the window chrome.

The other option is to not use windows :) I use both Vim and
gVim on my Linux box within X and Fluxbox allows me to easy
toggle window chrome, and maximize it to full-screen exactly as
you describe. I don't know of any similar option on Win32
platforms. (I haven't found a similar solution on my mac yet,
which is even more annoying because I have the forced Mac
menu-bar plus Vim's (or Console's) window chrome.

It can help to remove the superfluous window trimmings that gVim
adds. I have the following in my _gvimrc to do this for me:

set guioptions-=m
set guioptions-=l
set guioptions-=L
set guioptions-=t
set guioptions-=T

Hope this helps get you closer to what you want, given the
limitations of your platform.

-tim

[Tim Hammerquist]

Tim Chase wrote:
> > Can gvim be used in fullscreen mode? gvim is my favorite editor in
> > windows platform.
> >

> > What I want is a full screen mode just like when I play games in
> > full screen mode, no window border, no title bar, just the edit
> > area.

[ snip ]

> (I haven't found a similar solution on my mac yet, which is even
> more annoying because I have the forced Mac menu-bar plus Vim's (or
> Console's) window chrome.

MacVim[1] now supports fullscreen mode by toggling the 'fullscreen'
option, and 'fuoptions' to configure whether you want a regular size
window floating on a solid background (eliminating colorful
distractions), or whether you want the editing window to be maximized
horizontally, vertically, or both.

set fuoptions=maxvert,maxhorz
map <Leader>f :set invfullscreen<CR>

[1] http://code.google.com/p/macvim/

HTH,
Tim