Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3EDF4637.80403@mscha.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:31:35 +0200 From: Michael Schaap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030603 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Updated: vim-6.2-1 References: <20030601193755 DOT GD875 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <000e01c32afb$fc420990$ef00a8c0 AT spiderman> <20030605094221 DOT GC27724 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <3EDF3B10 DOT 3030706 AT mscha DOT org> <20030605131525 DOT GO875 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20030605131525.GO875@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter 0.1 @ mscha.org (http://www.amavis.org/) Corinna Vinschen wrote: >I have no idea what gvim is actually good for. >The non-GUI version runs very nicely inside of xterm or rxvt, >so what? > For me, mostly force of habit, these days. Mouse support under rxvt is now pretty decent (hmm... looks like dragging the status bar between two split windows doesn't work in rxvt), color support is OK (although you're limited to the standard colors, and there's no bold, italic and underline, for instance). I guess the main convenience of using gvim, for me, is that it frees up my terminal to do other stuff (like, follow the instructions in the README.txt I just opened). > <-- just a rethorical question > Oh. Sorry... ;-) - Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/