On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Tony Fitzgerald <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 am a new user of osx and MacVim, so not sure if this should be called an idiosyncrasy, but when I wanted to use "Caps Lock" to act as a Control key for the sake of Vim, and a few keys to be rebound in other apps to use Control instead of Meta (to feel more at home as a windows user with intel keyboard) I started having issues with MacVim seeing them as well. E.g., I had Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V etc. mapped to their windows equivalents (via ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict), I lost the ability to start visual mode in vim with the Ctrl+V key (it ends up pasting clipboard). I think MacVim is way too well integrated, to the point that it is undesirable. -- Hari > > 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. > > -- > O- J. Anthony Fitzgerald -O > __o O- [email protected] -O > _`\<, O- http://people.unb.ca/~jaf -O > (_)/(_) ,,,^o_... O- Fredericton, NB, Canada -O > O- Policy mandated line below -O > O- ITS is a scent-reduced workplace - http://www.unbf.ca/its/policies -O > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
