Re: Favourite Terminal for use with vim ?

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


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