
Vim features that are specific to that particular platform. Other platforms enjoy to people on macOS.įor brevity, the feature is referred to as "darwin" to signify it one of the To add in order for it to offer the same user experience that our users on Nicely with other applications running on the same desktop environment.Īs Vim is not an application dedicated only to macOS, we need an extra feature Needless to say, both are not to be missed for any decent text editor to work

Incorporate into Vim a converter module that bridges the gap between someĬharacter encodings specific to the platform and those known to Vim.

Make Vim interoperable with the system clipboard. What is accomplished with this feature is two-fold: If you have a Mac that isn't very old, you will be running OS X, also calledĭarwin. See the file "src/INSTALLmac.txt" that comes with the source files.

Send a message to the current MacVim Compiling Vim mac-compile When reporting any Mac specific bug or feature change, please use the vim-mac maillist vim-mac. In a terminal CTRL-^ needs to be entered as Shift-Control-6. Applications/Vim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g \ze\n') = Q: How do I start the GUI from the command line?Ī: Assuming that Vim.app is located in /Applications: Q: I can't enter non-ASCII character in Apple Terminal.Ī: Under Window Settings, Emulation, make sure that "Escape non-ASCII The following mappings are available for cut/copy/paste from/to clipboard. The 'nocompatible' option is set, otherwise it will only handle mac format These filesĬan be in any format (mac, dos or unix). " are discouraged, thus the rcįiles are named " vimrc" or " _vimrc" and " gvimrc" or " _gvimrc". On older systems files starting with a dot ". When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to define It is recommended to use Unix style line separators for Vim scripts, thus a You can use the $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME variable. If the path doesn't start by neither a " /" nor " :" ,Īnd a " :" is found before a " /" then the path is absoluteĮdit the file "main.c" in the folder "src" in the current folderĮdit the file "os_mac.c" in the current folder.

If the path start by a " :", the path is relative If the path start by a " /", the path is absolute relative to the "Desktop"), the following In order to determine if the specified filename is relative to theĬurrent folder or absolute (i.e. Starting with Vim version 7 you can just use the unix path separators with Initial Macintosh release, VIM version 3.0 There was a Mac port for version 3.0 of Vim. This file documents the particularities of the Macintosh version of Vim. VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar et al.
