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MacVim

MacVim

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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 (⌘-Z, ⌘-V, ⌘-A, ⌘-G, etc.),
  • transparent backgrounds,
  • full-screen mode,
  • multibyte editing with macOS input methods and automatic font substitution,
  • ODB editor support,
  • and more...
Note: Requires 64-bit processor.

Also Available: Download Vim for Windows

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What's new in this version:

Features:
New Vim features:
- Vim now supports the XDG Base Directory Specification. You can now put your vimrc and plugins in ~/.config/vim intsead of ~/.vim / ~/.vimrc. See :h xdg-base-dir

Auto completion:
- Matched text in a completion popup menu will now be highlighted v9.1.0476
- image
- Insert mode fuzzy completion (:set completopt+=fuzzy)

New options:
- tabclose: specifies tab closing behavior
- winfixbuf: fixes a window to a buffer and prevent navigating away from it

New functions:
- getregion() / getregionpos(): Helps retrieve the text selected in a visual selection
- diff(): Diff provided strings
- gettext() / bindtextdomain(): Vim plugins can now add localized messages
- filecopy(): Copy a file using Vim script

New bundled optional plugins (use packadd to enable them):
- comment: toggle code comments on/off
- nohlsearch: simple package to automatically set nohlsearch
- Highlighting for diff files are back to normal
- Vim9 script improvements
- Miscellaneous smoothscroll, termdebug, security fixes

Other platforms (these don't affect MacVim and included for reference only):
- GTK Vim GUI can now also use <D-...> to map super keys, similar to MacVim for its Cmd key mappings. This should allow sharing cross-platform configs easier
- Vim GUI now supports Wayland in Linux

Misc:
- When resizing MacVim, the title bar's message looks a little nicer now
- Copyright disclaimer in About MacVim no longer shows a year

General:
- Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.6.4. For legacy builds it's now updated to 1.27.3

Fixed:
- Fixed dragging tabs to reorder them resulting in a crash