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And something I have on my plate to introduce in near future includes features like pixel-smooth scrolling which could be a bit more tricky to implement in a generic terminal. Cmd-C to copy), and other features that only a native mac app can do. It supports features like drag-and-drop, Touch Bar menu bindings, touch bad gesture support, binding Cmd keys (e.g.
MacVim is mostly a souped up gVim (GUI Vim) implementation. On the other hand it may not be as fast if you just need to do a few lines of edits or a Git commit message, so it depends.
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You can resize the window or go full screen, drag-and-drop etc. It's easier to alt/cmd-tab to, and it's managed by the GUI window manager. Personally when I do long editing sessions, even when I'm on Windows or Linux, I prefer a separate GUI app rather than using the terminal. MacVim is a GUI app, but it also bundles a version of terminal Vim as well so you can use either. You can use both GUI and terminal Vim but it's a somewhat personal preference for how much you like to stay within terminal. There are really two questions here: 1) Should I use a GUI for Vim, and 2) How is MacVim different from other Vim GUIs. Is there a great improvement from the terminal application? in iTerm2 you can tell it to launch MacVim when you click on a file path), etc. Features MacVim support include being bundled as a Mac app, can bind menu items to TouchBar, supports touch pad gestures, drag-and-drop, full-screen support, can launch using a mvim:// protocol (e.g. You can read up on MacVim's docs though no here.
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I will try to update it in this week or so. Other than that I would have asked you to read the project's README but it's embarrassingly empty despite the number of users MacVim has and I have no excuse for that.
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As I mentioned there is no other gVim implementation for Mac using Cocoa (the current APIs that Apple supports).
What are those added features worth maintaining it and merging regularly? Windows / Linux GTK) tend to be more barebones. MacVim also provides a much more comprehensive implementation to work / feel / look like a native masOS app (and therefore a lot more code and files) and bundled as such, whereas most gVim implementation (e.g. Back then collaboration was not as widely done and a lot of these started as forks (but I wasn't involved then), and by now I think the project is distinct enough that it would be somewhat hard to merge all that back to Vim. However, most of them were for older versions of macOS, and the closest one to MacVim, vim-cocoa, has not been updated for a while, meaning MacVim is the only actively-maintained gVim implementation for Vim now (not counting NeoVim).Īs for why it is a separate project rather than merged upstream to Vim, I think the answer is mostly history. You can see a decent list of choices in this archived Vim download page.
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Because of that, there were quite a few Vim forks that aimed to bring gVim to the Mac (MacOS 9, Mac OSX Carbon, macOS Cocoa).
There was an old implementation for Carbon (now-deprecated API) in Vim but it was quite barebones, and hasn't been working for a while (just for reference you can see this thread which discussed removing the vestigial Carbon-based gVim implementation from the Vim source). But the basic story is Vim never really got a good gVim implementation for Mac. Interestingly, the the GUI-version (MacVim 7.4-74, also installed via homebrew) still functions fine in this regard, I can happily copy/paste to/from the system register there.ĭo you guys have any ideas? Cause I'm desperate at this point.This project was before my time as it's more than a decade old ( original page) and the project switched maintainer a few times already (I only became maintainer in 2018). Also, manually copying to the registers ( "*yy, "+yy) didn't work. I've also tried it in iTerm2 and Terminal.app, both in and outside of tmux (same results). :version gives me +clipboard and +xterm_clipboard. Using :reg confirms that with anything other than set clipboard=, nothing is written to vim's registers. Then I can at least paste in vim, but of course it doesn't share the system clipboard (duh). Now, when I have set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus zshrc files, and still it doesn't seem to work. I've tried completely removing and reinstalling vim (via homebrew), deleting my. I have no idea what I did to break it, it still works fine under ubuntu.
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However, lately the clipboard sharing broke under Mac OS X. To conveniently share vim's clipboard with the system clipboard. I'm using (roughly) the same config for my mac and my ubuntu machine.
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