Vim upgrade in latest MacPorts lost gvim

[Nathan Brazil]

No idea about the source and how it might relate to MacPorts, but you can download the binaries from https://code.google.com/p/macvim/.  I have been using it for a couple of years, and am really enjoying it.

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On Mar 12, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Jim Graham <spooky130u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:09:47PM +0100, Clemens Lang wrote:
> 
>> vim-app is an old Carbon-based version of a GUI for vim. It does not
>> work on anything newer than 10.6.
> 
> Carbon ... that's what the source for vim/gvim (from the net) griped
> about---it said that Carbon was out of date and therefore failed to build
> the GUI part of vim (i.e., gvim, which is just a hard link to vim).  I
> remember that now that you mentioned Carbon.
> 
>> The best GUI for Macs probably is MacVim (from the equally named port),
>> which uses a native GUI.
> 
> But is MacVim the vim/gvim distro from vim.org?  Or is it some variant
> that may or may not support all of what vim/gvim does?  Honestly, I have
> no idea, and this is a real question.....  One thing I'm wondering about
> is its use in an xterm, or from, say, within Mutt as the default editor
> for composing e-mail in Mutt, which I've never seen configured to use
> (never leaving the xterm that Mutt was run from) the GUI (nor do I think
> I'd want to).
> 
> For now, I'll stick with normal vim/gvim available from the slightly-older
> port version.  I don't use the GUI version often---I normally just use
> vim in an xtermn, but every now and then, features in gvim that vim
> doesn't have are very useful.  That's all IMHO, of course.  :-)
> 
> Thanks,
>   --jim
> 
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