I am using OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks).
What are the systematic steps to install to Gvim or MacVim in Mac OS? If you write the steps using 1, 2, 3, ..., it would be easy to follow.
I must confess that I failed to understand all the instructions provided on MacVim page. Other google-searched webpages do not clarify. E.g.
What is $VIMRUNTIME ?
What version of vim should I install for my OS?
Now somehow I have installed MacVim in my system (Not systematically I believe).
I can see that I have a folder /Applications/gvim.app/MacVim.app/.
Now when I open a text file from MacVim, which was already written using vi-editor, MacVim does not recognize it. Also vi does not recognize whatever is written in MacVim!
How can I resolve this?
- Step 1. Install homebrew from here: http://brew.sh
- Step 1.1. Run
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH - Step 2. Run
brew update - Step 3. Run
brew install vim && brew install macvim - Step 4. Run
brew link macvim
You now have the latest versions of vim and macvim managed by brew. Run brew update && brew upgrade every once in a while to upgrade them.
This includes the installation of the CLI mvim and the mac application (which both point to the same thing).
I use this setup and it works like a charm. Brew even takes care of installing vim with the preferable options.
There is also a new option now in http://vimr.org/, which looks quite promising.
Download the latest build from https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases
Expand the archive.
Put MacVim.app into
/Applications/.
Done.
That Macvim is obsolete. Use https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim instead
See the FAQ (https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/wiki/FAQ#how-can-i-open-files-from-terminal) for how to install the mvim script for launching from the command line
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21012203/how-can-i-install-macvim-on-os-x