Hi everyone! I'm using Slackware 14.1 & have encountered a couple of issues with gvim that I haven't seen before on other systems.

1. When I open it from an xterm in KDE ("gvim $MY_FILE &"), gvim pops up in full screen mode, & I have to click on the widget to reduce it to a reasonable size. (Hmm. Maybe there's a flag I need to invoke at the command line?)

2. In a lot of the text I'm editing, I have extra long lines. When I add some text to one of those extra long lines, gvim decides to be "helpful" by breaking the left-most part of the line into 55-character long lines. Which means I have to go back & rejoin them.

I've spent a few hours reading thru the man page & online articles about how to customize gvim & .gvimrc, but I haven't seen anyone mention these two issues. I don't remember seeing this with gvim on other distros, so I have to wonder if they are caused by a compile flag -- & when I get to thinking that, I know I'm more likely missing something simple.

Any clues where I should look for an answer to either or both of these 2 issues?

Thanks in advance.

Sounds like config issue. To see default settings, location of default rc files, and configure-time build arguments, do:
and
in a terminal. The gvim one will require to be run in an xterm or some such like rxvt, st, etc...
I'm betting the rc files in /usr/share/vim/{vimrc,gvimrc} are the ones that will be the source for your answer(s).
The default rc files are well commented, so it shouldn't be to much effort to find your culprit.

Hi.

Regarding the full-screen issue, I can't repro on Slack 14.1 + Xfce + xterm. Do you have a custom .vimrc/.gvimrc?

Regarding the line breaks, you can put set fo-=t in ~/.vimrc or ~/.gvimrc.

--mancha

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For setting the size of the window when I open gvim, I have this in ~/.gvimrc
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Maximize_o...al_window_size

My setup is Slack 14.1 + KDE. It occurs when I launch from rxvt; when I launch from xterm, it doesn't happen. Interesting. (And no, I haven't created a custom .vimrc/.gvimrc. I haven't had the time to tweak my system very much due to the demands of Real Life, darn it. That's one of the reasons I went with Slack this time around.)

I'll investigate this & other suggestions. Thanks for the responses.

rxvt/gvim under kde does have some strange issues.

I have a ~/.[g]vimrc and all works fine except gvim, when launched from rxvt, gvim starts up behind rxvt. Since I have gotten konsole to a somewhat usable state so I use that now when in kde.