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.
-- On Mar 12, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Jim Graham <[email protected]> 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 about---it said that Carbon was out of date and therefore failed to build 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 > > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
