Saluton Tony :) On Sun 19 Apr 2009 18:06 +0200, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> dixit: > On 19/04/09 10:09, pkt wrote: > [...] >> (In fact I practically never use gvim, it only adds menus which is an >> irrelevant feature if you already have muscle memory for the commands >> contained in them. So it is just a waste of precious vertical screen >> real estate) > [...] > > That's an unsubstantiated slur:
Regarding the "menubar stealing screen real state", I agree, but... > - The menubar and toolbar can be removed via an option setting (two > flags in 'guioptions'). Not so for the menubar on any "modern" terminal > emulator. ...xcfe4-terminal and gnome-terminal can hide the menubar, for example. > - gvim isn't constrained by a terminal for its choice of fonts, > encodings, and keystrokes. ...but font rendering is suboptimal at least under Linux, where fonts are not aliased with the GTK+ GUI. Vim running under a terminal emulator is, for me, much more readable and much faster than gvim. I've read reports of other people telling than gvim was, for them, much faster than console vim, but for me it is just the opposite. > - Even if you (or I) keep the menu & toolbar displayed, any "precious > real estate" they take up is easily reclaimed by tweaking the 'guifont', > 'lines' and 'columns' (with my usual settings, gvim has lines=63 > columns=199 while a typical terminal would, at most, use 60 lines by 80 > columns). ...but any terminal emulator allows you to adjust the font size (and family, of course) and the size of the terminal. Gvim has many advantages over console-vim-on-a-real-console, but when using a terminal emulator it has, for me, only disadvantages. -- 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! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
