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veilrap | 2 years ago

As some one who only uses vim/neovim in a terminal window - what’s the advantage of having GUI support in vim?

Mouse support in my terminal seems fine, even over ssh. Being able to do things like run it inside of a tmux session has always made it seem like the GUI would be a step back?

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ciupicri|2 years ago

You can use gVim as a Notepad on steroids. You have the simplicity and familiarity of Notepad combined with the power vim, e.g. search & replace using regular expressions, syntax highlighting, the ability to delete 5 words by typing ESC d 5 w, plugins like fugitive and so on. I can't select text in neovim by pressing Shift and arrow keys. I can't copy text by pressing Ctrl+C.