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MacVim

  -  22.7 MB  -  Open Source
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MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to macOS that is meant to look better and integrate more seamlessly with the Mac than the older Carbon port of Vim.

MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:
  • bindings to standard macOS keyboard shortcuts (CMD+Z, CMD+V, CMD+A, CMD+G, etc.),
  • transparent backgrounds,
  • full-screen mode,
  • multibyte editing with macOS input methods and automatic font substitution,
  • ODB editor support,
  • and more...
How to Use
  • Move the app to your Applications folder
  • Launch MacVim like any other macOS app
  • Open files via the command line using mvim
  • Customize settings in the .vimrc file
  • Use :help for built-in Vim documentation
  • Install plugins via Vim’s plugin manager
  • Use keyboard shortcuts for efficient editing
  • Save files with :w and exit with :q
  • Open multiple tabs or split views in MacVim
System Requirements

macOS 10.9 or later

Intel or Apple Silicon (Rosetta for some builds)

At least 100 MB free disk space

Command Line Tools for developer use

Terminal access for CLI usage

PROS
  • Highly customizable editor
  • Native macOS GUI integration
  • Supports Vim plugins and scripts
  • Lightweight and fast performance
  • Great for coding and text editing
CONS
  • No built-in Git integration
  • Interface may feel outdated
  • Limited modern UI features
  • Plugin conflicts may occur
Note: Requires 64-bit processor.

Also Available: Download Vim for Windows

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What's new in this version:

Features:
Better mouse support:
- Scroll wheels should feel much better to use in MacVim. A small scroll is now guaranteed to scroll at least one line, and shift-scrolling (horizontal scroll) works correctly now. You can now also turn off macOS's scroll wheel acceleration to scroll a fixed amount of lines in the "Input" settings pane
- Mouse buttons 4 and 5 can now be bound to and in Vim mappings (:h X1Mouse)

New Vim Features:
Diff mode improvements:
- Vim diff can now highlight per-character or per-word differences within a line. Per-character highlighting is now used by default. See :h 'diffopt' under "inline". v9.1.1243
- Diff anchors allow for more explicit controls over how and where the diff algorithm aligns text across files (:h diff-anchors). v9.1.1557
- Lots of auto-completion improvements. Some highlights below:
- New option: autocomplete. Get completion suggestions as you type. See :h ins-autocompletion. v9.1.1590
- Fuzzy matching now uses the fzf algorithm. v9.1.1627
- Popup menu borders can now be styled (:h 'pumborder' / :h 'completepopup'). v9.1.1835 / v9.1.1856
- Can now specify a custom completion source when using insert-mode completion (:h 'complete'). v9.1.1301
- set completeopt+=nearest will sort completion items by proximity to the cursor. v9.1.1308
- Command-line completion
- Search commands like / and :g can be tab-completed now. v9.1.1490 v9.1.1526
- Commands like :filetype and :highlight have better auto-completion. v9.1.1340 / v9.1.1138
- New vertical tab panel (:h tabpanel). v9.1.1391
- new bundled optional plugins (use packadd to enable them):
- hlyank (:h package-hlyank): Briefly highlight region of last yank command

new commands:
- :uniq (:h :uniq): Remove duplicate adjacent lines v9.1.1477
- General:
- Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.8.0

Security Fixes:
- Fixed MacVim erroneously setting the get-task-allow entitlement, which could allow another user-installed application to inspect it

Fixed:
- Fixed issue where macOS services (available in the "Services" menu) could not insert text when not in visual mode
- Fixed issue where guifont did not accept PostScript names with underscores (e.g. "CascadiaMono-Regular_Light")
- MacVim now uses the standard v:colornames variable for choosing highlight colors
- Vim syntax now understands MacVim-specific function showdefinition()

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