Saluton Christophe-Marie :)

Christophe-Marie Duquesne  <[email protected]> skribis:
>>> but in the meantime I am trying not to use gvim.
>>
>> Why?
>
> Because, gvim is not as good as a console. I'm a console person.

I'm not exactly a console person, but I like to do in the console
anything that is going to be more efficient done that way, and in my
case, that implies console vim versus gvim. I prefer console vim because
in my terminal emulator fonts are more readable than in gvim and in
addition to that it is faster (specially scrolling) and marginally
smaller.

> In the way I'm used to work, I use a program, I use <C-z> to interrupt
> it, I do some series of commands, and then I 'fg' to get back to it.
> Vim should not be an exception. AFAIK, there is no way to do that in
> gvim.

But it is a windowed program, you don't have to suspend it to move it
out of your way. I use console vim but I use it windowed in a terminal
emulator, so I never suspend it. Whenever I need to do another thing I
open a new tab in my terminal emulator, do the job and if I need it I go
back and forth between vim and any other app/tab.

> Plus, I don't especially need gvim's features (the only thing I would
> be glad to have is balloon tips, but I live without it).

The only *real* gvim feature it's the GUI. Any other thing (including
menus!) you have in console vim. For me, console vim is not the small
brother of GUI vim, it's more the opposite ;) since my console vim is
faster.

Anyway, I understand your point since I prefer console vim over gvim. In
your case, it's a matter of finding if your console driver or terminal
emulator supports FocusLost and FocusGain. Looks like my terminal
emulator (libvte based) doesn't detect that :?? Is there a fast way of
knowing if some event is available?
I'm using ":au FocusGained * echoerr A", but I don't know if it is a
good way...

-- 
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!

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