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Comment by mayanksinghal | Hacker News Reader

  Non Terminal Based UI Niceties: Use Gvim
  Cross Platform: So is vim/gvim. I use vim on Mac/Linux/Windows.

I love both vim and Sublime, so I would call 'Bodybagging' is flame-bait at best.

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Gvim has a lot of awkward hangups, in my opinion. Selecting text is still weird, there's no context menu, etc. It's vim outside of a terminal, which is great, but most full-fledged graphical editors take better advantage of their environment than Gvim does.

I agree with gvim being a bit basic. If you're on OSX, I think MacVim (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/) is a much better choice. On Linux, I use terminal vim and rely on the terminal for environmental integration: you can choose from a dozen X terminals that will do almost anything you want.

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