On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
Well, under Linux each different terminal (Linux console, KDE konsole, gnome-terminal, xterm, mlterm, ...) can react differently, but gvim has a better grasp of what you type than any of them, because there's one fewer layer between Vim and your keyboard. For a similar reason it also gives you better control of what you display (more colours, better control of: fonts, multi-language texts, cursor shapes, ...). IMHO the only job for which console Vim is better than the GUI is when displaying RTL and LTR scripts together in a single file, in a full-bidi terminal such as mlterm.
I found mlterm great for just-Arabic, but I could never quite get fonts set up properly for displaying RTL and LTR simultaneously.
But, you're also leaving out (IMHO the best reason to use console Vim:) how nice it is to have a consistent UI regardless of whether you're working locally or on a remote machine. I do most of my work in terminal emulators, and the fact that Vim behaves exactly the same whether I've first ssh'ed somewhere else is great. The overhead from X11 over slightly-unreliable network links is just enough to be irritating.
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