On Sep 11, 12:39 pm, Kevin Tough <[email protected]> wrote: > I am just starting to learn vim. I use Fedora and would like to know > whether most programmers use vim from the console or do they/you use > gvim. I have read that using one instance of vim is the best usage. > > ViEmu: would any of the experienced vim users be able to comment on the > completeness of the "ViEmu" software and its compatibility/stability > when used with Visual Studio. > > Namaste, > > Kevin Tough
I use console Vim at first, because as a beginner I (like most others) knew the editor as "vim", I hadn't made my acquaitance with "gvim" or "vim -g" until later. However when I was beginning to write some extensions for my Vim, I feel like to have most as many options for the colors being used, so I switched to Gvim, and stayed with it ever since. Gvim has amazing coloring features, it supports as many as 256*256*256 colors, the same as HTML. I was supprised the first time knowing that Vim as a text editor actually supports the same as many colors as the "markup language", but there she is, it's Vim. Should you find that colors out there being too many to choose from, Gvim also has hundreds of super-nice pre-defined color names such as "LightGoldenRod" installed with it (in 'rgb.txt' normally found under $VIMRUNTIME), I have a short piece of VimScript on my blog for a demonstration: http://bluegene8210.is-programmer.com/posts/26169.html (please ignore the ugly coloring inside the left pane, I didn't know about the pre-defined colors which I could have used for that extension) Now I use custom coloring heavily for every Vim extension I wrote, they would have been much less appealing with the 256-color console Vim, that's why I insist on Gvim. I don't have 'term' variants for the colorscheme and syntax files I use now. However there have been efferts to make the coloring features universal. Here's a python script written by a member of the vim_cn group for converting Gvim colorscheme files such that they can be used by console Vim, It did so by finding the closest approximation for each color being used: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2778 screenshots can be found here: http://www.vimer.cn/2010/03/%E5%BC%BA%E7%83%88%E6%8E%A8%E8%8D%90-%E5%B0%86gui%E9%85%8D%E8%89%B2%E8%BD%AC%E5%8C%96%E4%B8%BA%E7%BB%88%E7%AB%AF%E9%85%8D%E8%89%B2%E7%9A%84vim%E6%8F%92%E4%BB%B6-gui2term-py.html And there's another case: people complain about the <Alt> keys not working with their Vim every now and then. I'm not feeling smarter than those people, however I appreciate the time being saved dealing with such kind of problems by using only Gvim. -- 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
