On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 2:11:17 PM UTC+3, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 7:01:05 AM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: > > <snipped my original question> > > It is in part a question of point of view. One might say that MacVim is a > "gvim flavour" for the MacOSX Cocoa GUI. When someone says "Try using gvim > rather than Console Vim" he usually means "the Vim GUI rather than Vim > running in a terminal", and in that sense, "gvim" includes MacVim. > > OTOH, with only Bram's official sources and not the additional MacVim > modules, it is possible to compile a gvim which will run on a Mac, but only > in the X11 GUI. This is for instance what is meant if someone says "On the > Mac, you will probably use MacVim in preference to gvim" (i.e. to gvim for > X11). > > What you see in your terminal is a console-only Vim, which is neither MacVim > nor gvim for X11, and can only run within a terminal. This is what is meant > by "without GUI" in "Normal version without GUI" near the top. > > Oh, and about your first question, Gvim is not "only for Windows". On > Windows, gvim and Console Vim must be different executables, but on Linux it > is possible to compile a single "GUI-enabled" executable which will run as a > GUI when invoked as gvim, and in a terminal when invoked as vim. On the Mac, > as I said before, MacVim can be regarded as a "gvim for Cocoa" and when > helpfiles or list posts targeting any OS and not specifically the Mac talk of > gvim, MacVim is usually included. > > > Best regards, > Tony.
Tony, thank you very much for your explanation. I am truly sorry for getting back here only now. I finally have the ability to get to grips with the whole vim/gvim topic, and start using this highly praised tool on a daily basis. :) I will now find the way to download MacVim, as I am on X10.11.6, not X11. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
