Re: Installation clarity

2013-05-27 Thread David Rees
On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 11:29:34 PM UTC-8, Nico Weber wrote: MacVim could bundle the mvim script right in it's application bundle and provide a simple command or script to create the needed symlinks. The plan was to put an install mvim script button in the second preference

Re: Installation clarity

2009-12-17 Thread Carl Jacobsen
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, René Köcher wrote: Dragging apps into the application folder is how it's always been on mac - easy. In my opinion it's the best way to install MacVim. Agreed. Mac apps shouldn't use installers unless they have considerably complicated installations, like installing

Re: Installation clarity

2009-12-09 Thread björn
Hi George, 2009/12/6 George Dinwiddie: Just an FYI that this Mac newbie (experienced with both Windows Unices) found the installation a little confusing.  I ended up putting the MacVim program in /Applications the mvim script in /usr/local/bin along with a gvim symbolic link.  Does that

Re: Installation clarity

2009-12-09 Thread George Dinwiddie
Hi, Björn, At least some people read the readme, because I did. I just wasn't sure, after doing so, what was the correct way to install. Much of this is my own inexperience with the OSX environment. My posting was prompted by two motivations: 1. To confirm that I'd done a reasonable thing,

Re: Installation clarity

2009-12-09 Thread björn
2009/12/9 George Dinwiddie: At least some people read the readme, because I did.  I just wasn't sure, after doing so, what was the correct way to install.  Much of this is my own inexperience with the OSX environment. My posting was prompted by two motivations:  1. To confirm that I'd done a

Re: Installation clarity

2009-12-09 Thread Steven Michalske
On Dec 9, 2009, at 2:02 AM, björn wrote: All Mac apps either come as an archive (admittedly it is usually a .dmg though) or as an installer program. In the former case you always just drag the app to wherever you want to keep it (usually /Applications). The latter is not used that often

Re: Installation clarity

2009-12-09 Thread dacresni
that solution doesn't solve enough problems. I have added ~/bin in my path and put a symlink to mvim there. an alias my work better sense it's automatically updated when the target moves but my account is about the only thing that uses this program. I have many other things in that folder so it

Re: Installation clarity

2009-12-09 Thread René Köcher
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:16 AM, dacresni vivacar...@gmail.com wrote: that solution doesn't solve enough problems. I have added ~/bin in my path and put a symlink to mvim there. an alias my work better sense it's automatically updated when the target moves but my account is about the only

Re: Installation clarity

2009-12-09 Thread Nico Weber
With this lots of discussion going on I think I should state my point too. Dragging apps into the application folder is how it's always been on mac - easy. In my opinion it's the best way to install MacVim. Regarding the optional mvim script - why not take the same approach as

Re: Installation clarity

2009-12-08 Thread Robert H
On 12/5/09 10:31 PM, George Dinwiddie wrote: Thanks for the Mac version of gvim. I really appreciate it! Just an FYI that this Mac newbie (experienced with both Windows Unices) found the installation a little confusing. I ended up putting the MacVim program in /Applications the mvim script

Re: Installation clarity

2009-12-08 Thread Edward Marczak
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Robert H sigz...@gmail.com wrote: I leave everything alone and put the following in my .bashrc as an alias: alias vim='/Applications/MacVim/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim' alias gvim='/Applications/MacVim/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g' I'm doing something