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 that's what the source for vim/gvim (from the net) griped about---it said that Carbon was out of date and therefore failed to build the GUI part of vim (i.e., gvim, which is just a hard link to vim).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 -- THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | [email protected] | TeX actually recognizes several kinds of < Running Mac OS X Lion > | infinity, some of which are ``more infinite'' ICBM / Hurricane: | than others. 30.44406N 86. 59909W | --Donald Knuth in {The TeXbook} _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
