The
Vim gui can be customized to personal taste, and this
page includes a few ideas. Note that there is a separate page dealing
generally with the non-gui aspects of
Vim’s
interface.
Settings relating solely to Vim’s gui (IE those which
shouldn’t be used when it is running in a terminal) should be
placed in a .gvimrc file. There is a
sample .gvimrc available which contains my
settings, but these are very much likely to be a matter of personal
preference.
For what it’s worth, I always have syntax highlighting enabled in
the gui, expand the window to being 40 lines high, move the vertical
scrollbar from the right to the left, and get rid of both the menu and
the toolbar. I also pick the font which I find most readable on my
system, and change error messages to be red text on a white background,
because I found the default of white on red impossible to make out.
For more details, see the file. It’s fairly self-explanatory, and
adding anything else here wouldn’t really help.
