> I use Dropbox and SyncToy to synchronize my ~/.vim directory (~/vimfiles on Windows) and ~/.vimrc file across almost all the machines I use.
I was also doing that and found SyncToy unbearable slow for such a small set of files. I am wondering if you have encountered similar issues? My Googling showed lots of people complaining. I switched over to using robocopy (or "Robust File Copy", http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(v=ws.10).aspx). Any *nix boy would love it, it has about a 1000 switches ;) David On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote: > On 2012-11-19, Heldraug wrote: > > Just for the sake of it. Which flavor of Vim do you guys use? I > > which operative system? Prefered colorscheme? Reason? > > > > I use terminal Vim only with a bunch of things loaded from > > pathogen. I keep my personal configuration in Github so it's > > straightforward to get it up and running. > > > > I use mainly Arch Linux with Terminator and OS X with iTerm. I > > don't really like GVim because it takes more screen space, though > > I like the fact it has a lot more colors and better colorschemes. > > I prefer the fact that Vim is running in a terminal tab, though. I > > haven't tried Tmux, but I've heard it plays nice with Vim. > > > > So, what do you guys use? What do you prefer? Terminal Vim or > > GVim? > > I use vim almost all the time because I usually use it in > conjunction with Linux command-line tools or remotely over an ssh > connection, so I'm either already in a terminal when I start vim or > I need a real terminal to capture the output of some program run > from within vim. > > When I launch Vim from a GUI program, such as Firefox to edit a text > area, or when I'm using Windows, then I use gvim. > > I use Dropbox and SyncToy to synchronize my ~/.vim directory > (~/vimfiles on Windows) and ~/.vimrc file across almost all the > machines I use. Further, I have my .vimrc and my colorscheme files > tuned to make Vim look and feel the same whether using Linux or > Windows, vim or gvim. > > Tools such as Pathogen seem like overkill for the sets of plugins I > use. I've added two directories to my 'runtimepath' to help manage > plugins: one for the plugins I've created and one for vim-latex. > All the other plugins contributed by others are in the standard > places under ~/.vim. > > As others have mentioned, you can use 'guioptions' to turn off > certain GUI features to save screen space. I never use scrollbars > or the tool bar, so I have these settings in my .vimrc: > > set guioptions-=l > set guioptions-=L > set guioptions-=r > set guioptions-=R > set guioptions-=T > > 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 > -- 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
