Re: Vim vs GVim

On 11/19/12 21:53, Heldraug wrote:
> Just for the sake of it. Which flavor of Vim do you guys use? I
> which operative system?

These two go hand-in-hand for me. Most of my time is spent on
Debian Linux where I use (non-g)vim in an rxvt console or over a ssh
connection. On Win32 (at work), I primarily use gvim, except when I
forget to put a message in my svn commits, where I have it open the
"edit the message" in (non-g)vim.

I do occasionally use gvim on Linux, mostly when doing
Unicode-related stuff, as gvim seems to handle it better than the
vim+console combination.

> Prefered colorscheme? Reason?

My own, because it's what I like :-D

However, it doesn't stray too far from the stock "elflord" scheme on
which it was based. FWIW, I prefer light-on-dark, and my consoles
are set up that way too. Perhaps too much time growing up spent
looking at green-screen Kermit/telnet sessions :-)

> 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.

When I run gvim, I run it without most of the GUI chrome (no
menu-bar or toolbar, though I do let it show the scrollbar) to get
the most real-estate for my content.

> 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.

I do both tmux and GNU-screen as-needed. I started with "screen",
but prefer some of the tmux features, so am slowly training my
fingers to change over.

-tim





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