Vim upgrade in latest MacPorts lost gvim

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Mar 13 02:32:55 PDT 2014


On 2014-03-13 05:52, Jim Graham wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:09:47PM +0100, Clemens Lang wrote:
>> 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? 

Yes, it is using the same code as the terminal vim, but provides a GUI
on top. Similar to the way it is done in gvim with GTK+ or other toolkits.

It also provides a mvim command which would be the equivalent of gvim.

Rainer


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