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patch 8.2.4630: 'cursorline' not always updated with 'culopt' is "screenline"
Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/bf269ed0b0bd8414eea7bea17465b2738a9a2b55
Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Date: Sat Mar 26 13:28:14 2022 +0000
patch 8.2.4630: 'cursorline' not always updated with 'culopt' is "screenline"
Problem: 'cursorline' not always updated with 'cursorlineopt' is
"screenline".
Solution: Call check_redraw_cursorline() more often. (closes #10013)
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| 28141 | 1 *gui_w32.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2022 Mar 09 |
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| 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar | |
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| 6 | |
| 7 Vim's Win32 Graphical User Interface *gui-w32* *win32-gui* | |
| 8 | |
| 9 1. Starting the GUI |gui-w32-start| | |
| 10 2. Vim as default editor |vim-default-editor| | |
| 11 3. Using the clipboard |gui-clipboard| | |
| 12 4. Shell Commands |gui-shell-win32| | |
| 13 5. Special colors |win32-colors| | |
| 14 6. Windows dialogs & browsers |gui-w32-dialogs| | |
| 15 7. Command line arguments |gui-w32-cmdargs| | |
| 16 8. Various |gui-w32-various| | |
| 17 | |
| 18 Other relevant documentation: | |
| 19 |gui.txt| For generic items of the GUI. | |
| 4098 | 20 |os_win32.txt| For Win32 specific items. |
| 7 | 21 |
| 22 | |
| 23 ============================================================================== | |
| 24 1. Starting the GUI *gui-w32-start* | |
| 25 | |
| 26 The Win32 GUI version of Vim will always start the GUI, no matter how you | |
| 27 start it or what it's called. | |
| 28 | |
| 29 The GUI will always run in the Windows subsystem. Mostly shells automatically | |
| 30 return with a command prompt after starting gvim. If not, you should use the | |
| 31 "start" command: > | |
| 32 start gvim [options] file .. | |
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43 GUI Vim. |
| 7 | 44 |
| 45 Note: All fonts (bold, italic) must be of the same size!!! If you don't do | |
| 46 this, text will disappear or mess up the display. Vim does not check the font | |
| 47 sizes. It's the size in screen pixels that must be the same. Note that some | |
| 48 fonts that have the same point size don't have the same pixel size! | |
| 49 Additionally, the positioning of the fonts must be the same (ascent and | |
| 50 descent). | |
| 51 | |
| 52 The Win32 GUI has an extra menu item: "Edit/Select Font". It brings up the | |
| 53 standard Windows font selector. | |
| 54 | |
| 55 Setting the menu height doesn't work for the Win32 GUI. | |
| 56 | |
| 57 *gui-win32-maximized* | |
| 58 If you want Vim to start with a maximized window, add this command to your | |
| 59 vimrc or gvimrc file: > | |
| 60 au GUIEnter * simalt ~x | |
| 61 < | |
| 1376 | 62 |
| 63 Using Vim as a plugin *gui-w32-windowid* | |
| 64 | |
| 65 When gvim starts up normally, it creates its own top level window. If you | |
| 66 pass Vim the command-line option |--windowid| with a decimal or hexadecimal | |
| 67 value, Vim will create a window that is a child of the window with the given | |
| 68 ID. This enables Vim to act as a plugin in another application. This really | |
| 69 is a programmer's interface, and is of no use without a supporting application | |
| 70 to spawn Vim correctly. | |
| 71 | |
| 7 | 72 ============================================================================== |
| 73 2. Vim as default editor *vim-default-editor* | |
| 74 | |
| 75 To set Vim as the default editor for a file type: | |
| 76 1. Start a Windows Explorer | |
| 236 | 77 2. Choose View/Options -> File Types |
| 7 | 78 3. Select the path to gvim for every file type that you want to use it for. |
| 79 (you can also use three spaces in the file type field, for files without an | |
| 80 extension). | |
| 81 In the "open" action, use: > | |
| 82 gvim "%1" | |
| 83 < The quotes are required for using file names with embedded spaces. | |
| 84 You can also use this: > | |
| 85 gvim "%L" | |
| 86 < This should avoid short (8.3 character) file names in some situations. But | |
| 87 I'm not sure if this works everywhere. | |
| 88 | |
| 89 When you open a file in Vim by double clicking it, Vim changes to that | |
| 90 file's directory. | |
| 91 | |
| 92 If you want Vim to start full-screen, use this for the Open action: > | |
| 93 gvim -c "simalt ~x" "%1" | |
| 94 | |
| 95 Another method, which also works when you put Vim in another directory (e.g., | |
| 96 when you have got a new version): | |
| 97 1. select a file you want to use Vim with | |
| 98 2. <Shift-F10> | |
| 99 3. select "Open With..." menu entry | |
| 100 4. click "Other..." | |
| 101 5. browse to the (new) location of Vim and click "Open" | |
| 102 6. make "Always Use this program..." checked | |
| 103 7. <OK> | |
| 104 | |
| 105 *send-to-menu* *sendto* | |
| 106 You can also install Vim in the "Send To" menu: | |
| 107 1. Start a Windows Explorer | |
| 108 2. Navigate to your sendto directory: | |
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110 Windows Vista: C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo . |
| 7 | 111 3. Right-click in the file pane and select New->Shortcut |
| 112 4. Follow the shortcut wizard, using the full path to VIM/GVIM. | |
| 113 | |
| 114 When you 'send a file to Vim', Vim changes to that file's directory. Note, | |
| 19116 | 115 however, that any long directory names will appear in their short (MS-DOS) |
| 116 form on some Windows versions. This is a limitation of the Windows "Send To" | |
| 117 mechanism. | |
| 7 | 118 |
| 119 *notepad* | |
| 120 You could replace notepad.exe with gvim.exe, but that has a few side effects. | |
| 121 Some programs rely on notepad arguments, which are not recognized by Vim. For | |
| 122 example "notepad -p" is used by some applications to print a file. It's | |
| 123 better to leave notepad where it is and use another way to start Vim. | |
| 124 | |
| 125 *win32-popup-menu* | |
| 126 A more drastic approach is to install an "Edit with Vim" entry in the popup | |
| 127 menu for the right mouse button. With this you can edit any file with Vim. | |
| 128 | |
| 129 This can co-exist with the file associations mentioned above. The difference | |
| 130 is that the file associations will make starting Vim the default action. With | |
| 131 the "Edit with Vim" menu entry you can keep the existing file association for | |
| 132 double clicking on the file, and edit the file with Vim when you want. For | |
| 133 example, you can associate "*.mak" with your make program. You can execute | |
| 134 the makefile by double clicking it and use the "Edit with Vim" entry to edit | |
| 135 the makefile. | |
| 136 | |
| 137 You can select any files and right-click to see a menu option called "Edit | |
| 1668 | 138 with gvim". Choosing this menu option will invoke gvim with the file you have |
| 7 | 139 selected. If you select multiple files, you will find two gvim-related menu |
| 140 options: | |
| 141 "Edit with multiple gvims" -- one gvim for each file in the selection | |
| 142 "Edit with single gvim" -- one gvim for all the files in the selection | |
| 143 And if there already is a gvim running: | |
| 144 "Edit with existing gvim" -- edit the file with the running gvim | |
| 145 | |
| 3082 | 146 The "edit with existing Vim" entries can be disabled by adding an entry in the |
| 147 registry under HKLM\Software\Vim\Gvim, named DisableEditWithExisting, and with | |
| 148 any value. | |
| 7 | 149 *install-registry* |
| 150 You can add the "Edit with Vim" menu entry in an easy way by using the | |
| 151 "install.exe" program. It will add several registry entries for you. | |
| 152 | |
| 153 You can also do this by hand. This is complicated! Use the install.exe if | |
| 154 you can. | |
| 155 | |
| 156 1. Start the registry editor with "regedit". | |
| 157 2. Add these keys: | |
| 158 key value name value ~ | |
| 159 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99} | |
| 160 {default} Vim Shell Extension | |
| 161 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99}\InProcServer32 | |
| 162 {default} {path}\gvimext.dll | |
| 163 ThreadingModel Apartment | |
| 164 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\gvim | |
| 165 {default} {51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99} | |
| 166 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved | |
| 167 {51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99} | |
| 168 Vim Shell Extension | |
| 169 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Vim\Gvim | |
| 170 path {path}\gvim.exe | |
| 19116 | 171 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\vim 8.2 |
| 172 DisplayName Vim 8.2: Edit with Vim popup menu entry | |
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| 175 Replace {path} with the path that leads to the executable. | |
| 176 Don't type {default}, this is the value for the key itself. | |
| 177 | |
| 178 To remove "Edit with Vim" from the popup menu, just remove the registry | |
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180 You can also use the entry in the Windows standard "Add/Remove Programs" list. |
| 7 | 181 |
| 182 If you notice that this entry overrules other file type associations, set | |
| 183 those associations again by hand (using Windows Explorer, see above). This | |
| 184 only seems to happen on some Windows NT versions (Windows bug?). Procedure: | |
| 185 1. Find the name of the file type. This can be done by starting the registry | |
| 186 editor, and searching for the extension in \\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT | |
| 187 2. In a Windows Explorer, use View/Options/File Types. Search for the file | |
| 188 type in the list and click "Edit". In the actions list, you can select on | |
| 189 to be used as the default (normally the "open" action) and click on the | |
| 190 "Set Default" button. | |
| 191 | |
| 192 | |
| 193 Vim in the "Open With..." context menu *win32-open-with-menu* | |
| 194 | |
| 195 If you use the Vim install program you have the choice to add Vim to the "Open | |
| 196 With..." menu. This means you can use Vim to edit many files. Not every file | |
| 197 (for unclear reasons...), thus the "Edit with Vim" menu entry is still useful. | |
| 198 | |
| 199 One reason to add this is to be able to edit HTML files directly from Internet | |
| 200 Explorer. To enable this use the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options..." entry. | |
| 201 In the dialog select the "Programs" tab and select Vim in the "HTML editor" | |
| 19968 | 202 choice. If it's not there then installing didn't work properly. |
| 7 | 203 |
| 204 Doing this manually can be done with this script: | |
| 205 | |
| 206 ---------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 207 REGEDIT4 | |
| 208 | |
| 209 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\gvim.exe] | |
| 210 | |
| 211 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\gvim.exe\shell] | |
| 212 | |
| 213 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\gvim.exe\shell\edit] | |
| 214 | |
| 215 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\gvim.exe\shell\edit\command] | |
| 19116 | 216 @="c:\\vim\\vim82\\gvim.exe \"%1\"" |
| 7 | 217 |
| 218 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList\gvim.exe] | |
| 219 | |
| 220 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\OpenWithList\gvim.exe] | |
| 221 | |
| 222 ---------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 223 | |
| 19116 | 224 Change the "c:\\vim\\vim82" bit to where gvim.exe is actually located. |
| 7 | 225 |
| 226 To uninstall this run the Vim uninstall program or manually delete the | |
| 227 registry entries with "regedit". | |
| 228 | |
| 229 ============================================================================== | |
| 230 3. Using the clipboard *gui-clipboard* | |
| 231 | |
| 232 Windows has a clipboard, where you can copy text to, and paste text from. Vim | |
| 233 supports this in several ways. For other systems see |gui-selections|. | |
| 234 | |
| 235 The "* register reflects the contents of the clipboard. |quotestar| | |
| 236 | |
| 237 When the "unnamed" string is included in the 'clipboard' option, the unnamed | |
| 238 register is the same. Thus you can yank to and paste from the clipboard | |
| 28141 | 239 without prepending "* to commands. If this doesn't work use the "unnamedplus" |
| 240 string in the 'clipboard' option. | |
| 7 | 241 |
| 242 The 'a' flag in 'guioptions' is not included by default. This means that text | |
| 243 is only put on the clipboard when an operation is performed on it. Just | |
| 244 Visually selecting text doesn't put it on the clipboard. When the 'a' flag is | |
| 245 included, the text is copied to the clipboard even when it is not operated | |
| 246 upon. | |
| 247 | |
| 248 *mswin.vim* | |
| 249 To use the standard MS-Windows way of CTRL-X, CTRL-C and CTRL-V, use the | |
| 250 $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim script. You could add this line to your _vimrc file: > | |
| 251 source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim | |
| 252 | |
| 253 Since CTRL-C is used to copy the text to the clipboard, it can't be used to | |
| 254 cancel an operation. Use CTRL-Break for that. | |
| 255 | |
| 1121 | 256 CTRL-Z is used for undo. This means you can't suspend Vim with this key, use |
| 257 |:suspend| instead (if it's supported at all). | |
| 81 | 258 |
| 167 | 259 *CTRL-V-alternative* *CTRL-Q* |
| 7 | 260 Since CTRL-V is used to paste, you can't use it to start a blockwise Visual |
| 261 selection. You can use CTRL-Q instead. You can also use CTRL-Q in Insert | |
| 262 mode and Command-line mode to get the old meaning of CTRL-V. But CTRL-Q | |
| 263 doesn't work for terminals when it's used for control flow. | |
| 264 | |
| 265 NOTE: The clipboard support still has a number of bugs. See |todo|. | |
| 266 | |
| 267 ============================================================================== | |
| 268 4. Shell Commands *gui-shell-win32* | |
| 269 | |
| 270 Vim uses another window for external commands, to make it possible to run any | |
| 271 command. The external command gets its own environment for running, just like | |
| 272 it was started from a DOS prompt. | |
| 273 | |
| 274 *win32-vimrun* | |
| 275 Executing an external command is done indirectly by the "vimrun" command. The | |
| 276 "vimrun.exe" must be in the path for this to work. Or it must be in the same | |
| 277 directory as the Vim executable. If "vimrun" cannot be found, the command is | |
| 278 executed directly, but then the DOS window closes immediately after the | |
| 279 external command has finished. | |
| 280 WARNING: If you close this window with the "X" button, and confirm the | |
| 281 question if you really want to kill the application, Vim may be killed too! | |
| 282 (This does not apply to commands run asynchronously with ":!start".) | |
| 283 | |
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| 287 *win32-!start* | |
| 288 Normally, Vim waits for a command to complete before continuing (this makes | |
| 289 sense for most shell commands which produce output for Vim to use). If you | |
| 290 want Vim to start a program and return immediately, you can use the following | |
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| 2681 | 292 :!start [/min] {command} |
| 293 The optional "/min" causes the window to be minimized. | |
| 294 | |
| 7 | 295 ============================================================================== |
| 296 5. Special colors *win32-colors* | |
| 297 | |
| 298 On Win32, the normal DOS colors can be used. See |dos-colors|. | |
| 299 | |
| 300 Additionally the system configured colors can also be used. These are known | |
| 301 by the names Sys_XXX, where XXX is the appropriate system color name, from the | |
| 302 following list (see the Win32 documentation for full descriptions). Case is | |
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| 7 | 304 |
| 305 Sys_3DDKShadow Sys_3DFace Sys_BTNFace | |
| 306 Sys_3DHilight Sys_3DHighlight Sys_BTNHilight | |
| 307 Sys_BTNHighlight Sys_3DLight Sys_3DShadow | |
| 308 Sys_BTNShadow Sys_ActiveBorder Sys_ActiveCaption | |
| 309 Sys_AppWorkspace Sys_Background Sys_Desktop | |
| 310 Sys_BTNText Sys_CaptionText Sys_GrayText | |
| 311 Sys_Highlight Sys_HighlightText Sys_InactiveBorder | |
| 312 Sys_InactiveCaption Sys_InactiveCaptionText Sys_InfoBK | |
| 313 Sys_InfoText Sys_Menu Sys_MenuText | |
| 314 Sys_ScrollBar Sys_Window Sys_WindowFrame | |
| 315 Sys_WindowText | |
| 316 | |
| 317 Probably the most useful values are | |
| 318 Sys_Window Normal window background | |
| 319 Sys_WindowText Normal window text | |
| 320 Sys_Highlight Highlighted background | |
| 321 Sys_HighlightText Highlighted text | |
| 322 | |
| 323 These extra colors are also available: | |
| 324 Gray, Grey, LightYellow, SeaGreen, Orange, Purple, SlateBlue, Violet, | |
| 325 | |
| 326 *rgb.txt* | |
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330 $VIMRUNTIME/colors/lists/default.vim. |
| 7 | 331 |
| 332 ============================================================================== | |
| 333 *gui-w32-dialogs* *dialog* | |
| 334 6. Windows dialogs & browsers | |
| 335 | |
| 336 The Win32 GUI can use familiar Windows components for some operations, as well | |
| 337 as the traditional interface shared with the console version. | |
| 338 | |
| 339 | |
| 340 6.1 Dialogs | |
| 341 | |
| 342 The dialogs displayed by the "confirm" family (i.e. the 'confirm' option, | |
| 343 |:confirm| command and |confirm()| function) are GUI-based rather than the | |
| 344 console-based ones used by other versions. The 'c' flag in 'guioptions' | |
| 345 changes this. | |
| 346 | |
| 347 | |
| 348 6.2 File Browsers | |
| 349 | |
| 350 When prepending ":browse" before file editing commands, a file requester is | |
| 351 used to allow you to select an existing file. See |:browse|. | |
| 352 | |
| 353 | |
| 354 6.3 Tearoff Menus | |
| 355 | |
| 356 The Win32 GUI emulates Motif's tear-off menus. At the top of each menu you | |
| 357 will see a small graphic "rip here" sign. Selecting it will cause a floating | |
| 358 window to be created with the same menu entries on it. The floating menu can | |
| 359 then be accessed just as if it was the original (including sub-menus), but | |
| 360 without having to go to the menu bar each time. | |
| 361 This is most useful if you find yourself using a command buried in a sub-menu | |
| 362 over and over again. | |
| 363 The tearoff menus can be positioned where you like, and always stay just above | |
| 236 | 364 the Main Vim window. You can get rid of them by closing them as usual; they |
| 7 | 365 also of course close when you exit Vim. |
| 366 | |
| 367 *:tearoff* *:te* | |
| 368 :te[aroff] {name} Tear-off the menu {name}. The menu named must have at | |
| 369 least one subentry, but need not appear on the | |
| 370 menu-bar (see |win32-hidden-menus|). | |
| 371 | |
| 372 Example: > | |
| 373 :tearoff File | |
| 374 will make the "File" menu (if there is one) appear as a tearoff menu. > | |
| 375 | |
| 376 :amenu ]Toolbar.Make :make<CR> | |
| 377 :tearoff ]Toolbar | |
| 378 This creates a floating menu that doesn't exist on the main menu-bar. | |
| 379 | |
| 380 Note that a menu that starts with ']' will not be displayed. | |
| 381 | |
| 382 ============================================================================== | |
| 383 7. Command line arguments *gui-w32-cmdargs* | |
| 384 | |
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386 see |win32-cmdargs|. |
| 7 | 387 |
| 388 ============================================================================== | |
| 389 8. Various *gui-w32-various* | |
| 390 | |
| 391 *gui-w32-printing* | |
| 392 The "File/Print" menu prints the text with syntax highlighting, see | |
| 393 |:hardcopy|. If you just want to print the raw text and have a default | |
| 394 printer installed this should also work: > | |
| 395 :w >>prn | |
| 396 | |
| 24387 | 397 Vim supports a number of standard MS-Windows features. Some of these are |
| 7 | 398 detailed elsewhere: see |'mouse'|, |win32-hidden-menus|. |
| 399 | |
| 400 *drag-n-drop-win32* | |
| 401 You can drag and drop one or more files into the Vim window, where they will | |
| 402 be opened as normal. See |drag-n-drop|. | |
| 403 | |
| 6476 | 404 *:simalt* *:sim* |
| 7 | 405 :sim[alt] {key} simulate pressing {key} while holding Alt pressed. |
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| 6476 | 407 Note: ":si" means ":s" with the "i" flag. |
| 7 | 408 |
| 409 Normally, Vim takes control of all Alt-<Key> combinations, to increase the | |
| 236 | 410 number of possible mappings. This clashes with the standard use of Alt as the |
| 7 | 411 key for accessing menus. |
| 412 The quick way of getting standard behavior is to set the 'winaltkeys' option | |
| 413 to "yes". This however prevents you from mapping Alt keys at all. | |
| 414 Another way is to set 'winaltkeys' to "menu". Menu shortcut keys are then | |
| 415 handled by windows, other ALT keys can be mapped. This doesn't allow a | |
| 416 dependency on the current state though. | |
| 417 To get round this, the :simalt command allows Vim (when 'winaltkeys' is not | |
| 236 | 418 "yes") to fake a Windows-style Alt keypress. You can use this to map Alt key |
| 7 | 419 combinations (or anything else for that matter) to produce standard Windows |
| 236 | 420 actions. Here are some examples: > |
| 7 | 421 |
| 422 :map <M-f> :simalt f<CR> | |
| 423 This makes Alt-F pop down the 'File' menu (with the stock Menu.vim) by | |
| 424 simulating the keystrokes Alt, F. > | |
| 425 :map <M-Space> :simalt ~<CR> | |
| 236 | 426 This maps Alt-Space to pop down the system menu for the Vim window. Note that |
| 7 | 427 ~ is used by simalt to represent the <Space> character. > |
| 428 :map <C-n> :simalt ~n<CR> | |
| 236 | 429 Maps Control-N to produce the keys Alt-Space followed by N. This minimizes the |
| 7 | 430 Vim window via the system menu. |
| 431 | |
| 1121 | 432 Note that the key changes depending on the language you are using. |
| 433 | |
| 7 | 434 *intellimouse-wheel-problems* |
| 435 When using the Intellimouse mouse wheel causes Vim to stop accepting input, go | |
| 436 to: | |
| 437 ControlPanel - Mouse - Wheel - UniversalScrolling - Exceptions | |
| 438 | |
| 439 And add gvim to the list of applications. This problem only appears to happen | |
| 440 with the Intellimouse driver 2.2 and when "Universal Scrolling" is turned on. | |
| 441 | |
| 3750 | 442 |
| 443 XPM support *w32-xpm-support* | |
| 444 | |
| 21676 | 445 GVim can be built on MS-Windows with support for XPM files. |+xpm_w32| |
| 3750 | 446 See the Make_mvc.mak file for instructions, search for XPM. |
| 447 | |
| 448 To try out if XPM support works do this: > | |
| 449 :help | |
| 19813 | 450 :let runtime = escape($VIMRUNTIME, ' \') |
| 451 :exe 'sign define vimxpm icon=' .. runtime .. '\\vim16x16.xpm' | |
| 452 :exe 'sign place 1 line=1 name=vimxpm file=' .. expand('%:p') | |
| 3750 | 453 < |
| 19813 | 454 You may need to get the vim16x16.xpm file from github: |
| 455 https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/vim16x16.xpm | |
| 456 | |
| 3750 | 457 |
| 14421 | 458 vim:tw=78:sw=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl: |