Saluton Tony :) On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:37:30 +0100, Tony Mechelynck dixit: > On 25/01/09 18:35, Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote: > [...] > > And yes, the "standard" terminal color shades are ugly. Probably > > they were chosen to provide shades which were as orthogonal as > > possible between them, don't know :? But they are mostly useless > > for syntax highlighting. Fortunately the 256 colors available for > > terminals provide good shades. They fit a bit better IMHO with a > > black background, but I find a white (or better, a light) > > background better because I focus better (greater depth of field > > with my iris a bit more closed). > > The ones I dislike most (at least in my konsole terminal) are "dark > red" and "dark yellow", which are two shades of some kind of brown.
Me too!. Probably the reason behind those hues is buried in some old dark hardware horror story ;)) > Personally I prefer gvim, not only for the above reason, but also > because it has other advantages, such as a menubar (which can be > worked around, and I have the code for it in my vimrc, but its > mouseless navigation is slower) I don't miss the menubar a single bit, because I'm more proficient at using Vim with my fingers and not with the entire hand and the mouse, and menus are, for me, slow to use with the keyboard (I'm VERY used to use menus with the mouse). I tried for a couple of months and I never used the menu bar nor the icon bar in Vim. > or an instantaneous font switch, so that e.g. if I want to look in > detail at all the intricacies of some Chinese characters I may set > FZFangSong 16 instead of my usual Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8. (There > is a "Settings => Font => Select..." menu in konsole but the gvim > ":set" command is much faster for the fonts I know, and, with ":set > gfn=*" just as fast when hunting.) I find the font dialogs for xfce4-terminal and sakura even faster than ":set gfn=*" and pick the font. Moreover, in gnome-terminal you can have profiles with different font settings if I recall correctly :? Setting the font from within GVim may be faster, of course, but it a reason not good enough for me to get back to GVim. > What else? A maximized screen which a smaller font, which allows a > much larger number of characters onscreen (I prefer to keep my konsole > terminal at 80x43, which sits easily within my desktop at a convenient > character size, and dates back to the first EGA cards so that most > text-based applications handle it with no problem). I can maximize my xfce4 terminal to get more lines/columns when using console Vim, and the redrawing is faster than when using GVim. I still prefer console Vim, if for no other reason, for the speed. In my modest (for today standards) machine, console Vim is much faster. It has probably to do with the character rendering, which is the other reason I prefer a terminal emulator and console Vim. I haven't carried exhaustive tests, but the scroll was intolerably slow in GVim. Fortunately, we can choose between the two faces of Vim :) A pity that a KDE face is not available, for KDE lovers. Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! We are waiting for 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 +0000 ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
