MacVim Port of the Vim text editor Vim to Mac OS X
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Port of the Vim text editor Vim to Mac OS X MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X and is meant to look better and integrate more seamlessly with the Mac than the already existing Carbon port of Vim. Here are some key features of "MacVim": · Safari style tabs · Multiple windows: use "Application windows" Expos and Cmd-` to switch between windows · Client/server (+clientserver): use the --remote switch and friends to open files; script the server with remote_send() et al. · GUI Dialogs: with keyboard shortcuts, no need to use the mouse anymore! · Toolbar · Font panel: access to all of your fonts, proportional fonts render with fixed advancement · Multibyte: with automatic font substitution for wide characters · Input methods: use Mac OS X input methods to input non-English languages · Transparent backgrounds · Full screen editing What's New in This Release: · added colorschemes · The colorschemes were downloaded from Shan Leung Woo's Website who also made nice previews available: · http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/index.html · added german spelling files · Source: ftp://ftp.vim.org:/pub/vim/runtime/spell/ · Info.plist contains the complete version including the patchlevel · To produce a universal binary which can be run on MacOSX 10.4.x (Tiger) the following compiler and linker flags should be set: · $ export CFLAGS="-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch ppc -arch i386 -mmacosx-version-min=10.4" · $ export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch ppc -arch i386 -mmacosx-version-min=10.4"

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