> Is there no advantage, no extensions etc, compared to ordinary builds,
> like one from MacPorts, or just the one they bundle with Leopard?
There are a few differences, but they are minor.
The one bundled with Leopard might be less up-to-date (however, my
Leopard vim is at 7.2.22, which is quite recent. MacVim is at 7.2.75),
and it includes less Features (see `:version`). For example, MacVim
comes with python and ruby support (try `:python print 4 ** 8` in
MacVim), and with clipboard support: You can hit "*p in MacVim in
terminal mode to paste the current clipboard contents, this doesn't
work in Leopard's vim.
You can probably tell MacPorts to build a vim version with python and
ruby support, but the clipboard code is MacVim-specific.
The coolest thing of course is that you can do `:gui` in MacVim's
terminal vim and switch to a great GUI vim that supports all the
keyboard shortcuts you know (or should know) and love in OS X (⌘N,
⌘S, ⌘T / ⌘{ / ⌘}, ⌘E / ⌘G, ⌘`, ⌘= / ⌘-, ⌘C / ⌘V,
⌥
←/⌥→), a fullscreen-mode (which lets you do things like
http://amnoid.de/tmp/deskt
op.png ), scrollbars whose scrolling speed honor mouse wheel
acceleration, client/server support, and lots more ;-)
Nico
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