Agreed. I've never understood why people insist on running vim outside of a terminal. You can use a mouse with macvim in iterm, but if you're using the mouse you're probably not using vim very efficiently anyway.
For me, it is not for the sake of using the mouse. I hate that dreaded device.
Using the GUI, however, spawns a couple of possibilities - being able to use custom fonts and color schemes (with more than 256 or even 16 colors) is something I find important when I sit day after day staring at code. Being able to use plugins that underline (curly) would be another, third obviously to use VIM inside in Vimperator(FF plugin) or Thunderbird.
I'm a *nix guy, I even love Solaris. A couple of years ago, I didn't even have X installed. Everything was in the framebuffer - video, graphical browsing, etc. But I'd never say somebody is a n00b just because he doesn't use the terminal for everything.
Using the GUI, however, spawns a couple of possibilities - being able to use custom fonts and color schemes (with more than 256 or even 16 colors) is something I find important when I sit day after day staring at code. Being able to use plugins that underline (curly) would be another, third obviously to use VIM inside in Vimperator(FF plugin) or Thunderbird.
I'm a *nix guy, I even love Solaris. A couple of years ago, I didn't even have X installed. Everything was in the framebuffer - video, graphical browsing, etc. But I'd never say somebody is a n00b just because he doesn't use the terminal for everything.