Comments on: A better Maximize button for Mac + Vim

By: fede

fede — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:10:56 +0000

If your filesystem is case sensitive you should use
org.vim.macvim instead of org.vim.MacVim.

At least I had one org.vim.macvim.plist with all sort of settings and
one org.vim.MacVim.plist with only this setting and vim was not reading the capitalized version.

Thanks for your post!

By: Paul Betts

Paul Betts — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:16:09 +0000

@4ndy: There’s already a SIMBL plugin that does this called Stoplight written by Andy Matuschak (of Sparkle fame), but it makes QS coredump – I’d check out his code and see if you can fix it up.

By: 4ndy

4ndy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:54:32 +0000

I wrote a SIMBL plugin last year to change Safari’s ‘Zoom’ button behavior from “fit to contents” (which doesn’t), to “maximizize” (no typo). This involved messing with SIMBL and classdump so I could replace the Safari Cocoa function that returns a box size that fits the data with my own routine that just returns the size of the screen (for a real maximize experience).

I’d like to be able to extend this so that EVERY [Cocoa*] app’s zoom button does a maximize, but I haven’t dug deep enough into the undocumented bits with classdump. And, as I no longer use Safari, I was wondering if anybody knows what I’d replace to get this to work with ALL [Cocoa*] apps. In Safari, it was “(NSRect)windowWillUseStandardFrame:(id)sender defaultFrame:(NSRect)rect” from the “BrowserWindowController” class.

*SIMBL only works with Cocoa apps, for those not in t3h know.

Too bad not everyone included a defaults option like MacVim

By: Paul Betts

Paul Betts — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:46:27 +0000

@Hans: I would buy that if its initial window width was set to ‘tw’ characters, but afaik it’s hard-coded to 80. I see what you’re saying though

By: Hans Fugal

Hans Fugal — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:57:58 +0000

Thanks. I see why this was doneâ€”it’s because some people like to maximize vertically and not lose their chosen number of characters width (usually 80). I loved FVWM for that very reason, but more important is an actual maximization button, since usually the cause for maximizing is to fit more width on the screen when reading someone’s code who obviously thinks everyone has 200-character terminals/editors.