On 05/11/11 17:21, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
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.
I guess the reason I left this out is that I never work on a remote machine.
Best regards,
Tony.
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