On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Corcoran <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I would love a port of MacVim for the Windows platform. This is a > little weird for obvious reasons, (am I requesting a port of a port?), > but to me, MacVim is far superior to the other flavors of vim, and I > would love a version of it that worked on my non-Mac machines. Any > chance of this happening? If not, is there a similar, Windows- > compatible alternative besides GVIM or Cream? > MacVim has the advantage of several active developers. Windows gvim has received only incremental changes over the last decade, to keep parity with the Gnome version. The MacVim-specific code is written in Objective C and makes heavy use of Cocoa. There are open-source libraries like GNUstep and Cocotron which supposedly allow Cocoa apps to run on Windows, but I'd be amazed if they work well enough to make MacVim actually run correctly on Windows. Perhaps not a fair comparison, but it took the Wine team fifteen years before they declared v1.0 of their Windows emulator. Can you be more specific about what it is that you want to see running elsewhere? -- /George V. Reilly [email protected] http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
