On 2011-09-12, Ben Fritz wrote: > I don't have much reason behind my choice, I just like it better. I'm > not fond of being bound to a terminal window, I use it when I need to > but usually separate from Vim. I do know that the terminal version > causes all sorts of headaches; as evidenced by the mailing list, wiki, > and IRC channel. More key mappings are normally available in gvim, you > don't need to worry about how many colors your term has or how it > renders combinations of ctermfg and cterm, color schemes are usually > written for gvim, you can set the font quickly and easily, etc. As for > interacting with other tools which need to know when the editor is > done, there's the -f argument when launching Vim. > > I'm also not fond of needing to suspend Vim with Ctrl-Z and bring it > back up whenever I want to do work with the terminal. I like having > them side-by-side. I could launch two terminal windows or start > looking into "screen" (I think anyway, never tried it), or I could > just launch the GUI and be done with it.
Interesting. On any Unix system I use vim in a terminal almost exclusively. I've never felt "bound" to a terminal. If I need the shell for a quick task, I either do it with ":!" or ":sh". If I need a terminal for longer term or at the same time as I'm editing, I simply open a new terminal. I've never used Ctrl-Z. The only headaches with using vim seem to be experienced by those who are new to vim and/or to terminals and don't yet understand the differences between the terminal interface and the GUI. One of the main reasons I use vim rather than gvim is that I can open any application from within vim and not worry about it encountering a dumb terminal. Hence, when I need another vim instance, I could launch gvim, or I could just open vim in a terminal and be done with it. I'm just sayin' that gvim is not universally better than vim, just different. Regards, Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
