gVim
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Dec 8, 2025first mention
Mar 10, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
- Twelve Days of Shell 2 mentions
- EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim 1 mention
- Terminals should generate the 256-color palette 1 mention
Also written as gvim. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
“I use both gvim on linux and macvim on mac for a lot of things”
“people wonder why I use gvim rather than vim”
Shameless shill - I found Tridactyl and Vimium to be frustratingly limited due to the security restrictions imposed on web extensions, so I've been working on https://glide-browser.app/ for a while; It's a fork of Firefox with (some) vim motions and a TypeScript based config.
“Check out gvim.”