[icc97]

After having struggled a bit with using Vim in the Windows console (8 terminal colours, no bold or italic fonts and other weird unexplainable issues), I switched to GVim which does actually work remarkably well.

At least then you can bring the benefits you've spent time getting working in Linux into Windows.

As much as the purist in me wants to get it working in the DOS prompt especially with the Windows 10 improvements + Git SCM, I was wasting too much time.

[reissbaker]

FYI, if you're using Windows and enjoy terminal editors (I do!), I'd highly recommend switching terminal emulators from the default Windows console to wsltty[1] — assuming you're using WSL here. It has full xterm-256color support once you enable it in the Options menu, and fonts work just as you'd expect.

Personally I still use Atom on Windows, because WSL still has a few perf issues that make my preferred setup (zsh, tmux, Vim + a custom snowflake set of plugins) slightly more laggy than feels comfortable for me, although it does somewhat incredibly all actually work. But if your setup is different, there's a good chance that it'll run pretty snappily: I've noticed Bash + Vim is quite fast on Windows.

[1] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty