On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > Thanks to the replies. Please confirm my understanding: > > 1) Building and using non-GUI Vim on Mac OS is the same as that for > any other Unix.
Yes. > 2) The source for GUI Vim is not even maintained by Bram. And the > reason for a separate mailing list "vim_mac" (no such separate lists > "windows_vim" or "unbutu_vim" etc.) is this special GUI code. Basically right. The source code for the cocoa GUI isn't maintained by Bram, but as an out-of-tree patchset against Bram's code. Of course, you could still build a GTK gvim using the stock sources, but it wouldn't have the modern mac look-and-feel. ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
