It also throws errors using native Mac windows: Then there are the little things that perhaps don't improve usability in the traditional sense, but make the program nicer to use such as native, Safrai like tabs, the utilisation of the Mac menu bar and a native Mac toolbar you can collapse. This means to open a file I can enter : o ~/Documents/MyFile.rb or just as easily enter + and use a regular Mac OS X dialog box. I'm one of those fruitjobs who sees their code as poetry, and as with all art it looks far nicer when presented in a nice frame :-).Īnother feature of MacVim given that it's a native Mac OS X Aqua application is that along with the regular ++command Vim commands, it also supports native Mac shortcuts. Now obviously I could go into my Terminal.app preferences to get the same background colour and font size, but the colours definitely look nicer in MacVim. Below is a comparison of a simple Ruby script I wrote shown in MacVim and Vim: While this is true, it does have features that put it far ahead of the simple Terminal based Vim I was advocating before.įirstly, the syntax highlighting which what made me fall in love with Vim from the beginning is far richer in MacVim because it supports full 16bit colour, not 16 colours. My incorrect assessment stemmed from my own misunderstanding of what MacVim was capable of I assumed that it was just an Aqua version of GVim, or in English a Mac OS X native version of graphical Vim that didn't need X11. Isn’t it a sad state of affairs these days when you have to go on record saying that you’re not being paid off? Sheez Lousie! I've since been proven wrong and have even started using MacVim as my primary editor for everything I do on this machine, and I love it!ĪSIDE: Despite what you may think, I was not paid any money to create this post. Unfortunately I also said that I had installed Vim from MacPorts on my MacBook Pro to use in the Terminal and that I failed to see what the point would be of installing the dedicated graphical MacVim application. I mentioned how I loved the syntax highlighting and how much it improved the readability of code, and how I had got used to the two mode operation and most of what I would consider to be the basic and intermediate commands. About a week ago I posted (amongst other ramblings) that I had successfully moved over to the Vim text editor for most of my day to day… editing.
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