On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Yongwei Wu wrote:
> Did you miss that GUI VIM exists on Mac OS X, is easy to use, is
> maintained regularly, and has a lot of users? I myself am a happy user
> of MacVim.
I've refrained from comment so far because I've only been a Mac user
for a few months, having migrated from Solaris. The original
questioner asked about idiosyncracies of gvim on Macs and, to date, I
don't think anyone has pointed out the one thing that irks me somewhat.
I have gvim with native Mac support installed because that version is
what you need if you want to use gvim as the editor for the Firefox
plugin "It's All Text!" or to use gvim as the browser for downloaded
text files.
If you make extensive use of spaces, however, and want to be working on
different projects in different spaces and use the native Mac version
of gvim launched from the tray then I have not found a way to have
multiple copies of gvim open in different spaces editing the files for
different projects. (There may be a way, I haven't found it.)
To work the way I want with gvim, I had to install a separate instance
which works under the X11 support and can be launched in the normal way
from the shell prompt.
The main idiosyncracy appears to be needing two separate installations
of gvim for the two separate windowing contexts. The main annoyance
was the amount of time it took to figure this out.
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