Vim upgrade in latest MacPorts lost gvim

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

> On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Jim Graham wrote:
> > What build option for the latest vim adds back gvim?  I don't remember
> > ever having to specify anything to get gvim.  Oh, and yes, I do know that
> > vim and gvim are the same binary (hard link, if I recall), but that
> > didn't work either with the new version.  My solution was to
> > deactivate//uninstall the new one and reactivate the previous version,
> > but that's not the right way, obviously.....
> >
> 
> It's not an option to vim, it's a separate package: vim-app, which has vim as
> a dependency.

vim-app is an old Carbon-based version of a GUI for vim. It does not work on anything newer than 10.6.

The best GUI for Macs probably is MacVim (from the equally named port), which uses a native GUI.

There are a few other methods to get a GUI vim based on more traditional Linux approaches, e.g. vim+gtk2 to get a GTK2-based gvim.

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Clemens Lang