[kilowatt]

I've been really tempted to fork and contribute to MacVim and steal some of the nicer visual things ST2 is doing. Namely,

  1) rounded corners on selection boxes
  2) nice glowing, fading cursor
  3) smooth scrolling with a feeling of velocity/inertia
  4) the minimap

I tried the Vim plugin, but so many of the motions that I use daily were missing I had to jump ship. But I'd love it for MacVim to have the same level of visual and UI polish that ST2 does--it really sets a high bar.

[st0p]

I think that we are entirely different types of developers (and that is fine, this is in no way meant as as being negative on the way you work), but I couldn't care less about the first 3 points you mention. They don't add anything to my productivity.

I do wonder though, if visual attraction is such an issue to you, why in the first place do you use Vim?

[kilowatt]

I use Vim because I'm faster in it than anything else, hands down.

But I do think there's probably some vague psychological argument to be made about the elegance and simplicity of your tools mirroring a state of mind conducive to elegance and simplicity in your programming. It's why people are into tools like WriteRoom.

Plus, I feel like the smooth scrolling feature actually does help you preserve an awareness of where you are when you're browsing a file.

[patrickod]

one of the things I've found lacking in MacVim recently is smooth scrolling. The rendering engine on OSX doesn't handle large files well at all. It's a shame because otherwise everything work quite well