[Follow-up Results] Your favourite text editor/IDE?

Re:[Follow-up Results] Your favourite text editor/IDE? by krat0sprakhar on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @07:24AM (#2353852)

Vim on Windows looks horrendous. Too bad I can't use it on Windows. Too bad I'm on Windows :|

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Re:[Follow-up Results] Your favourite text editor/IDE? by yurifury on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @07:30AM (#2353863)

Are you using gvim or the console version? I've found gvim for windows to be fine.

http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc

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Re:[Follow-up Results] Your favourite text editor/IDE? by omh on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @07:51AM (#2353916)

Really? I use gvim on Windows all the time. It looks fine - a little 'unixy', but that's practically a feature with Vim.

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Re:[Follow-up Results] Your favourite text editor/IDE? by edambauskas on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @08:42AM (#2354042)

Try a different setup. Which variant of VIM where you using on Windows ?

I need to use Windows at work but I am using VIM for my daily development needs.

I use Msysgit+Console 2 to get a tabbed shell and use VIM from inside it. I probably used Cygwin to install ctags. I also have gVim but don't use it (one of the reasons -- I don't like the font and haven't found out yet how to change it).

I had to play a little bit until I got my setup working. It is not perfect (mouse scroll does not work inside my shell VIM). But it satisfies me.

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Re:[Follow-up Results] Your favourite text editor/IDE? by sea6ear on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @12:41PM (#2355153)

To change the font in gVim, set guifont in your .vimrc file

ex. (from mine): set guifont=Courier_New:h8:b:cANSI

However, if you are happy with your current setup, I'm not sure there's a reason to change things just for the gui.

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