Editor: Vim is a highly configurable text editor, freely available for many different platforms. For general information, advocacy, and the latest news on Vim in general, visit the Vim Home Page. This site is specifically devoted to Vim on the Macintosh. This page is mainly devoted to binary distributions for Mac OS X.
What's New:
(30 March 2007) The binaries for Panther and Tiger now include patches up to 7.0.224. The one for Jaguar is still at 7.0.218. Next time, I will try out the Ctrl6 patch.
(16 March 2007) I posted updated binaries for OS X 10.3 and 10.4, featuring updated guitab and ATSUI patches. (The previous version of the guitab patch caused problems with menus. Thanks to all who reported this problem.) If I boot up from the copy of 10.2 on my external drive, I should be able to post another version soon.
(10 March 2007) In the past two or three days, I have made a few changes:
I corrected the links on this page to the Mac Vim wiki.
I gave up on maintaining the list of current patches on this page in favor of the list on the wiki, where programmers can upload patches themselves.
I compiled new binaries for OS X 10.3 and 10.4: see below. These include official patches through 7.0.214 and unofficial patches for ATSUI font rendering and a GUI tab line. Please test both, and give feedback! To test font rendering, experiment with turning the 'macatsui' and 'antialias' options on and off. To see the "tab line," open at least two tabs (for example with :tab sp) and make sure the 'guioptions' option includes the e flag.
(1 February 2007, updated 30 March 2007) Panos Laganakos has set up a wiki for vim on the Mac. We have set up the subdomain wiki.MacVim.org to point to it. Depending on user feedback, we may move content (News, FAQ, Bug list, other) to the wiki.
