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JESii
JESii

Reputation: 4937

vim winminwidth "E36 Not enough room" error

I'm having problems setting a 'dynamic' window width in my .vimrc. Doing this for winheight works just fine. Here's the code:

" dynamic current window sizing from TBot Art of Vim
set winheight=9
set winminheight=9
let &winheight = &lines - 9
set winwidth=40
set winminwidth=40       " E36 Not enough room here
let &winwidth = &columns - 40

The winheight settings work just great; but the winwidth settings get the error.

However, it all works once I'm in vim; I usually have 3-7 related windows open in a single tab and the dynamic resizing means I always have lots of space horizontally and vertically to work in.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1442

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172520

I can reproduce this, and tried to work around it via :autocmd VimEnter and other such tricks, but failed.

If it all works out in the end, you can simply suppress the error by prepending :silent! to the command.

Upvotes: 1

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