Vim is hard, I just want to click around

Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around by Periodic on Monday September 05, 2011 @12:47PM (#2962694)

Under Linux I always run vim in a terminal. Part of this is habit because I (in the past) often edit files on remote computers and I like the consistency.

On my mac I end up using MacVim mostly so that my Vim and Terminal apps can be considered separate apps for the purpose of things like spaces, and it just seemed to integrate a little better with the Mac infrastructure.

But in general I haven't found a reason to prefer a GUI version over a terminal version when a sufficiently capable terminal is available.

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Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around by thristian on Monday September 05, 2011 @08:48PM (#2963704)

The reasons I run gvim rather than terminal vim are basically all because sufficiently capable terminals do not exist:

- The excellent "solarized" colour scheme only works properly with 24-bit color unless you're willing to mess with the terminal palette and break all your other terminal apps. No terminal I know of supports 24-bit color.

- I have a handy keybinding that cycles through open windows and tabs, I find it makes the most sense bound to Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab. Neither key can be bound in any terminal I know of.

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Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around by Periodic on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @05:21PM (#2971500)

I've been using urxvt for a few years now. It supports a full color range and I adopted Solarized for a while, but went back to Tango.

I haven't had any trouble binding <ctrl>-based combinations. All my window-manager commands are based on <super>, leaving <alt> and <ctrl> open for other things. I assume <ctrl-tab> is conflicting with tab swapping in gnome-terminal or something similar.

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Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around by thristian on Monday September 12, 2011 @07:11PM (#2989248)

No, it's just the way that terminals work: "Tab" is transmitted as "Ctrl-I", and there's no way to encode "Ctrl" twice in the input stream.

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Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around by grn on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @03:29AM (#2964550)

I'm using xterm with Solarized and it works pretty well. gvim is indistinguishable from vim in a terminal. I haven't observed any broken apps.

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