Well then, I won't hold my breath. Thanks for the info. The things that I like about MacVim over GVim are
1. Looks good out of the box. 2. Easy to customize minor graphical things (font, etc.) through a menu, instead of Modifying a confusing .vimrc file. 3. Opening a file in MacVim results in it being opened in a new instance, instead of a new Gvim "Window" (am I getting the terminology right here?) which replaces the view of what you were previously editing. 4. Easily switch between instances/windows with apple` 5. Easy font scaling with apple- apple+ So it's really just interface/usability issues. On Apr 29, 10:19 pm, "George V. Reilly" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
