On Feb 27, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Simon McCorkindale wrote:
Peter Michaux wrote:
On 2/27/07, Peter Michaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have found some pre-built binaries for VIM 7 for Mac OS X but
nothing for how to build the binary so it lives in /usr/bin/vim. I
would like the executible to live there just like the VIM 6.2
executable that comes with OS X does now. This is a good idea isn't
it?
Any links for this?
It seems like just "make" works but this installs the app in
/Applications/Vim.app/ which is quite different then what I expected.
When I start this application it is like it's own application. It
isn't just running inside Terminal.
Thanks,
Peter
I think you're downloading the Vim GUI application designed for Mac
OS X. To update your terminal-only version (ie /usr/bin/vim) I
think you'll be okay just downloading the Vim 7.0 sources from
vim.org that isn't platform dependent. The underlying Unix part of
OS X is just FreeBSD I think so the same source package that'll
compile on FreeBSD will probably also do so on OS X. I'm just new
to OS X as of a week ago so I could be wrong ;-)
Simon
What I've done is download the Vim from the macvim site and then
aliased vim to /Applications/Vim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim
so that I don't mess with OS X's binaries at all. I can use it
graphically or from my terminal this way too. I use it from the
terminal all the time, since OS X has such a nice terminal :)
Might work for you Peter?
Mike
