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I never run gvim, are there any real advantages that I am missing? Probably only if you have a mouse connected to your computer. It is much easier for cutting
by dhimes 16y ago
I never run gvim, are there any real advantages that I am missing?
Probably only if you have a mouse connected to your computer. It is much easier for cutting/pasting between documents in different windows in a gui. I understand there are plugins for vi that work (I use vi most of the time), but it's easier for me to just use vim. Seems like to a first-order approximation gvim = vi + gui plugin
- pyre 16y agoThe X11 clipboard support in vim works in the terminal, but it only works when X11 support is built in. You just have to use the keyboard shortcuts ("+y = copy / "+gP = paste). vim has to be built with X11 (gvim) support though b/c vim and gvim are really the same binary, IIRC (gvim = vim -g).
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- dhimes 16y agowhen you compile vim this way, do you get the menus also, or is that only gvim? About the only thing I do by menu is change the color scheme, because I never remember the commands (nor the scheme names, for that matter). Different schemes can be useful for different lighting conditions and different monitors.
- pyre 16y agoThe menus are only drawn in gvim. It doesn't draw them in the terminal like Emacs. The colorscheme command is ":colorscheme <scheme>" or ":colors <scheme>". It tab-completes to the scheme names that it has accessible to it, so you don't really need the menu. This is useful even in the terminal due to 256-color support (":set t_Co=256" if it doesn't auto-detect this for you). There are also a couple of plugins that will auto-convert gvim-only (aka fullcolor) colorschemes into 256-color schemes when you are in a 256-color terminal.