It is still very powerful, but becoming less so, as other editors catch up, and start providing features which vim does not have.
It is stable, and more Mac-like than anything out there. Other editing environments, like Panic's CODA, have concentrated on a different approach, helping you save time not by filling up the editor with thousands of specific text-production features, but by combining the functionality of several pieces of software into one, which saves up even MORE juggling time. Editors like TextMate now have a much gentler learning curve, while still providing the user with a fantastically wide feature set, and an amazing level of customisation. Unfortunately for vi/vim, now there certainly is. There was nothing this powerful available. In my experience, it is THE hardest text editor to learn, often requiring several months before the new user feels that they are starting to feel comfortable with the new tool.Įven as recently as a couple of years ago, this kind of time investment was worthwhile, if you were a programmer, who had to spend a lot of your day in front of the computer, juggling different graphical text editors who provide only half of the features set you need for any language. Vi/Vim is, of course, an extremely powerful text editor, which is infamously difficult to learn. We have higher standards, and things to get done, and that's why we'll be using MacVim. I'm sure your $DEITY will still love you. If you for some reason, need to have less features because due to some unseen yet crippling inability to teach your muscles to do something, which is a vim requirement, then by golly use something with an "easier learning curve". If you are are fearful, why, pay fear's price and fire up some 100 meg IDE and have it hold your hand and change your diapers. Of course, people program are not stupid, people who program on unix platforms are unafraid of complexity, or at least _were_ not stupid, and _were_ unafraid of complexity. Vim has a steep learning curve, like all things Unix. MacVim is gvim for os X, what an os X program should be like, combined with every optimization that code editing needs and thousands more that are "nice". Troll lurking under the bridge named /Applications.
Vim on os X used to be like firefox, a thing from another place, a foul, alien and misshapen MacVim is an excellent version of gvim, easily the lushest and sexiest one i've ever seen. This is _the_ editor, unless you run emacs, and of course all those people, having internalized the concept of "false gods" have cheerily begun running textmate instead.Įnough about that. So you can edit any number of files.Well, exactly what I want are thousands of text specific features. Note too the useful command - which automatically adds each command line argument, wrapped in Quotes.
#GVIM FOR MAC FULL#
The trick with the entry above is to start the "Vim" application inside Vim.app - and to diwon it, thus running the full GUI VI - GVim. Applications/Vim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g & The above BASH configuration works fine, except for when you SSH into the remote Mac system, need some tweaking there.
#GVIM FOR MAC MAC OS X#
However in Mac OS X the application runs slightly differently.
#GVIM FOR MAC FOR MAC OS X#
I use GVim for Mac OS X - but I run it mostly from the command line.įor many years I have used a macro for "vi" which runs GVim if it can, or text/termainl VIM if it can not.
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