On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Tim Chase <v...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > > On 2013-02-12 08:39, Ben Fritz wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 9:37:20 AM UTC-6, Patrick wrote: > > > Hi Everyone. I would like to switch from gvim to vim. > > > > I'm not criticizing your decision. But I want to know, why? Maybe > > I'll consider it too sometime, too; right now I have no reason at > > all to switch. > > My big plus for (non-g)vim is that I use it within screen/tmux > allowing me to uneventfully resume my session from another machine. > As I spend a majority of my time in a console, it's right within > reach. > > Gvim does offer benefits: a broader spectrum of colors for creating > color-schemes, fonts are easier to choose, and Unicode display tends > to be less of a pain (not reliant on the terminal and its settings). > Additionally, for those that need it, the menu & toolbars are there. > I tend to fly with all my 'guioptions' turned off, so it's somewhat > moot for me. On Win32, gvim also allows more than 80 columns with > less headache (cmd.exe is less than friendly when it comes to > changing the number of columns). > > Either way, I run both rxvt+vim (most of the time) or gvim > (occasionally) using Fluxbox's ability to disable all chrome, so I can > maximize my editing to 100% of the screen real-estate (no chrome, > menus, task-bar, dock, slit, etc). On Win32, I run gvim almost > exclusively. > > -tim
I usually use GVim or MacVim, but occasionally I need to use Vim in a terminal Mac: iTerm2, http://www.iterm2.com/ Linux: I just learned about the st terminal, but I haven't tried it. https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/fMe7yuaDXKA The Ubuntu Terminal (gnome-terminal?) has served me well. Windows: recently learned about ConEmu-Maximus5, but I haven't tried it. http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/ I avoid using vim in the stock cmd.exe window, even though I wrote most of the Win32 console mode code back in the mid-90s. -- /George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech -- -- 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
