[houzi]

I am surprised that your highres screen doesn't handle three buffers side by side. My 13" 720p laptop also has trouble with three buffers, but I was hoping that would be mitigated the day I got a highres 13" laptop.

Anyways, you can try a narrow width font: I love M+ 1mn, though the narrow width causes problems when it doesn't have a certain unicode point defined and falls back to a full width font..

[notheguyouthink]

Yea, it's likely a font issue. This[1] is what my font looks like, which is quite readable to me but i can't get much smaller (for me personally). Each pane fits ~85 chars (not including the vim sidebars/etc), so it's quite perfect for two panels.

Note that OSX by default has some type of feature that reduces the realestate you have available.. don't ask me to explain it, i haven't really used it much.

Basically, with the Retina monitors, the resolution is actually too high for a lot of scenarios. You end up with tiny fonts, tiny icons, etc. So they somehow sample/zoom the sizes so that you get both really crisp renders but with very few real pixels on screen.

This may be what is causing you to be surprised that i am still having issues with a high resolution Retina screen. But, turning it off would be effectively the same thing as just turning my iTerm2 fontsize to ~8-10 or something tiny, allowing me to fit three panes.

[1]: http://imgur.com/MBvoEJd