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Reputation: 6644

Setting a maximum size for vertical windows in vim

When working with split windows, I often make use of the command to size all windows equally. However, I also use mini buffer explorer in a vertical window, which I want to keep to a maximum width of 25. Is there any way I can configure vim so that either the mini buffer explorer window does not get re-sized or it stays at a maximum width of 25?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1838

Answers (2)

Grzegorz Gierlik
Grzegorz Gierlik

Reputation: 11232

Here is a part of minibufexpl.vim:

"               If you would like a vertical explorer you can assign the column
"               width (in characters) you want for your explorer window with the
"               following .vimrc variable (this was introduced in 6.3.0):
"
"                 let g:miniBufExplVSplit = 20   " column width in chars
"
"               IN HORIZONTAL MODE:
"               It is now (as of 6.1.1) possible to set a maximum height for
"               the -MiniBufExplorer- window. You can set the max height by
"               letting the following variable in your .vimrc:
"
"                 let g:miniBufExplMaxSize = <max lines: defualt 0>
"               
"               setting this to 0 will mean the window gets as big as
"               needed to fit all your buffers.

This should help to solve your problem.

Upvotes: 1

dvcolgan
dvcolgan

Reputation: 7728

You can do

:set winfixwidth

in the window that you want to stay the same.

See

:help winfixheight
:help winfixwidth

Upvotes: 7

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