On 09/10/11 23:39, Kevin Tough wrote:
would like to know whether most programmers use vim from the console or do they/you use gvim.
I use gvim on Win32 because the console there is such a horrid experience. On Linux (Debian in this case), the majority of my use is within a terminal (rxvt mostly; occasionally xterm) and only rarely pulling up gvim. There are a few features that gvim offers that aren't duplicated in console vim, but I turn most of them off anyways (menu, tool-bars, etc) and only dip into gvim mostly for helping to answer 'guifont' or "sign" issues on the mailing-list.
I have read that using one instance of vim is the best usage.
"best" is rather subjective. I tend to use vim-sessions like some folks use vim's tab-pages in a single vim session...to separate work-areas/projects. That's mostly because each one tends to be in its own working directory and I came to Vim long before tab-pages were available (I think my earliest usage was a 5.x series build). Many folks use vim's "remote" capabilities to have one running session of vim and pipe all their work into/out-of that one session. I just always found that more work to set up, so I don't bother.
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