MacVim

MacVim screenshot

Project hosted on Google Code, bringing the venerable text editor into the 21st Century of Mac.

MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X that is meant to look better and integrate more seamlessly with the Mac than the existing Carbon port of Vim. Here is a list of some of its features:

  • Safari style tabs, Multiple windows, Toolbar, Transparent backgrounds
  • GUI Dialogs
  • Multibyte
  • Keyboard bindings to standard Mac OS X short-keys (such as Cmd-z, Cmd-g, Cmd-o, etc.)
  • Extensive help files
  • Font panel: access to all of your fonts via the standard OS X font panel, proportional fonts render with fixed advancement
  • Input Methods for non-English keyboard input
  • Full-screen editing
  • ODB Editor protocol support
  • Client/Server: use the —remote switch on the command line to open files; script the server with remote_send() et al

Coding by Björn Winckler. See also the vim_mac Google Group.

Not to be confused with Mac Vim, the old Carbonized version.