Mastodawn

I just spent a half-hour hacking in the #Neovide (GUI version of #neovim) #Lua config file, and I have figured out abbreviations and custom keymapping, which means I can move my "production" editing from #gVim to Neovide with a clean Lua config file.

Do I need to move away from gVim/#Vim? I'm not sure, but we're in this game to try new things, right?

Is it worth it to move from Vimscript to Lua?

passthejoe Feb 28

The #gVim #Flatpak, which I am running in #Bluefin, has been grabbing a whole lot of CPU. I only noticed it yesterday, but it could have been going on a bit longer.

Until this is resolved, I'll be using console Vim, which does ship with Bluefin Stable.

I generally prefer gVim because I use the system clipboard a lot, and it's slightly easier with a GUI app. I also use the mouse a bit. That's the kind of Vimmer I am.

I can make it work with console #Vim, and that's probably better for me in the long run.

I would have moved to #Neovim GUI #Neovide, but my .vimrc does not work, and it would be a heavy lift to re-create it.

AndyK1970 Feb 11

Other subject... So #Notepad has an RCE... Wait, WHUT?

#vim (and #gVim on Windows) for the win, at least for those of us who have been driving vi and it's successor vim for longer than notepad.exe has existed, and can navigate the rather interesting way it works.

(I've lost count of the number of times I've pressed the "i" key before starting to type in Notepad or even Nano)

KaiXin Jan 13

@[email protected] since #vim supports it I'd say #gvim

Paul 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦🇵🇸Nov 15

Does anyone know why the icons in GVim look like this in Fedora KDE Plasma? What do I need to install?

#fedora #kde #gvim #vim #linux

LB Thomas 💎🏳️‍🌈Sep 4, 2025

OMG! Microsoft brought Edit back from the dead?

Open-sourced and Rust?!

And, in theory you can run it on mac and Linux?! At least they are bringing back edlin.

But, It's true. When I was looking for a small lightweight terminal editor in Windows, I either needed to take the Cygwin dependency for vim/gVim, or use Helix (which I had chosen so far).

#Edit #Edlin #vim #vi #gvim #TerminalEditor #ModelessEditor #Rust #OpenSource #Microsoft

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/edit/

Edit command line text editor

Learn how to use Edit, a command-line text editor, in Windows.

DeaDSouL

Aug 30, 2025

@deshipu Nice setup!

Just wondering, why multiple #gvim instances over #Vim splits (`:vs` and `:sp`) ?

postmodern Jun 16, 2025

Why the heck does set columns=84 in ~/.gvimrc cause starting gvim to output 0;22R0;83V to stdout each time?

#gvim #vim #vimrc

mfjurbala Apr 23, 2025

Does anyone use #gvim rather than #vim or a GUI for #neovim?

I've been looking at it but it seems like it would get in the way to me. Almost like it doesn't fit like its a weird place between terminal based development and using a gui IDE. Especially since terminal emulators now can do a lot more like italics and true color support, etc.

#FOSS #softwareDevelopment #coding

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Darren Apr 10, 2025

#gvim #arm64. A few steps down the rabbit hole and the gating factor seems to be availability of #windows #github CI machines for open source projects. All of the tool maintainers who maintain things for free aren’t going to jump on windows ARM until github opens that door. This seems like a huge opportunity for #microsoft to drop the ball here ;). @dsyme ?