MacVim for Mac OS X 10.6 (Cocoa GUI) v7.4
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What Is MacVim?
MacVim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
MacVim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. MacVim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
MacVim can also be configured to work in a very simple (Notepad-like) way, called evim or Easy Vim.
What MacVim Is Not?
MacVim isn't an editor designed to hold its users' hands. It is a tool, the use of which must be learned.
MacVim isn't a word processor. Although it can display text with various forms of highlighting and formatting, it isn't there to provide WYSIWYG editing of typeset documents. (It is great for editing TeX, though.)
There are currently two kinds of Vim for Macintosh:
This is the Cocoa GUI version.
MacVim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
MacVim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. MacVim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
MacVim can also be configured to work in a very simple (Notepad-like) way, called evim or Easy Vim.
What MacVim Is Not?
MacVim isn't an editor designed to hold its users' hands. It is a tool, the use of which must be learned.
MacVim isn't a word processor. Although it can display text with various forms of highlighting and formatting, it isn't there to provide WYSIWYG editing of typeset documents. (It is great for editing TeX, though.)
There are currently two kinds of Vim for Macintosh:
- Using the Cocoa GUI. Also known as MacVim. This is the latest and is being actively developed. This behaves like a Mac application.
- Using the Carbon GUI. This is an older way of doing things and isn't updated much any more. This behaves more like Vim on Unix.
This is the Cocoa GUI version.
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Date added
24 Aug 2013
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