title: Reasons for using command line Vim versus GUI Vim
body: <p><strong>Background</strong></p>
  
  <p>I'm building an application where it detects what documents you're using from the file system. To do this it must access the AXDocument attribute of the active window. MacVim provides this. Running Vim in the Terminal wouldn't provide this.</p>
  
  <p>I've just put out a survey to ask what editor coders who are interested in my app use. A significant number of the folk using Vim used it directly from the command line.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Why not use a GUI Vim?</strong></p>
  
  <p>Why do some people prefer to run Vim this way versus a GUI implementation like MacVim? </p>
  
  <p>What advantages does this offer? As I understand it, you can send files to MacVim from the command line just as easily as command line Vim.</p>