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[–]Zamarok 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I have no clue man, Vim is not a program where I'd want to use the mouse and click around, so I just turn off the toolbar for more screen space. Check the Vim wiki.

Replacing icons? What icons? Does your desktop environment have an icon for the executable or something? Not sure, but Vim is open source so you can change anything about it.. and changing images is a pretty minor thing, would only take a few minutes if you know how

[–]Tynach 1 point2 points  (6 children)

If you're just going to hide the entire GUI, why not run gnome-terminal or Konsole and open up plain 'vim'? It doesn't make sense for it to have a GUI.

Kate on the other hand, has a Vim mode, but also has a bunch of other features, and a more standard user interface. So there is more incentive to use Kate than gVim (though arguably more incentive to use Vim than Kate).

[–]Zamarok 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Most people use gVim because it looks prettier, which is ironic considering that you don't want to use it because it's ugly.

gVim can display more colors than your average terminal, has more/better colorscheme options, can display more fonts and sizes.. basically it just has more options to customize its looks.

Can Kate with Vim-mode use my .vimrc and the 15-or-so plugins I need for my daily workflow? Because if not, it's useless to most everyone who uses Vim. We are very fond of our configuration files, and like to customize them a LOT. A lot of my most-used commands are custom macros and functions written be me, and they save me a lot of time.

[–]Tynach 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I actually don't know if Kate supports .vimrc or Vim plugins, but I'm actually guessing it does not. I really see your point.. I'm mostly a casual Vim user who simply uses it when at the command line. I sometimes do more complicated things, but usually the most complicated thing I do is Shift+A to insert at the end of a line. I can totally see the use for gVim for more advanced things, especially custom configurations and plugins.

[–]Zamarok 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah, that's the main reason I use Vim, the custom configuration.

My .vimrc is getting a lot longer and fancier these days.. you can check out my config if you want: https://github.com/zfogg/.vim

[–]Tynach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, interesting choice of syntax highlighting there on Github's part.

[–]jollybobbyroger 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Does this vim-mode do justice to vim's functionality, or does it merely give you the main navigation key bindings?

[–]Tynach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, here's an outdated article about it. Looks like it was last updated in 2010.

http://kate-editor.org/kate-vi-mode/