I do use vim in a terminal, xterm, and find it very satisfactory, with 59 lines of text in view. But that was on Arch Linux, a distro that has many fine features, but whose excruciating install process puts it firmly among the hair-shirt trinity of Linux distros, Arch, Gentoo and Linux from Scratch. On Lubuntu, I use the same setup, but the ubuntus, and as far as I can determine every other distro except Arch, lack a small font package that enables xterm to show the full range of the utf-8 character set. Without it xterm issues the following complaint whenever it starts with vim:
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1" > xterm: cannot load font > "-Misc-Fixed-medium-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1" > xterm: cannot load font > "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1" > xterm: cannot load font > "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1" > and will show essentially only the keyboard characters, all others as blanks. Gvim doesn't have that problem, but, being a hard-core keyboard user I don't wish to be lured into unnatural practices with rodents and (oh horrors!) menus. I guess what I have to do is compile vim for myself. On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 3:17 PM Benjamin Esham <[email protected]> wrote: > meine wrote: > > > Graham Lawrence wrote: > > > >> which works as expected and gives me a gvim that looks like vim in a > tty, > > > > Just for my curiosity, why don't you use vim in a plain console or plain > > terminal window? Is there any advantage in using gvim this way instead > > of a plain vim session? > > Mouse support, maybe? Gvim may also offer a larger color palette, depending > on your terminal. > > Benjamin > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/kddn8ku2.fs8ssd%40bdesham.net. > -- Graham Lawrence -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CA%2BE5mK7jco%3D_HX37TEJQZOgV7AtmxPuu5Uv0vN8MhcMOW%2BPKFA%40mail.gmail.com.
