![]() VimR Sounds Stupid, why not use MacVim or Vim?Ī commenter on a Hacker News article I found said it better than I could I love the negativity in many of the responses here. I have pulled it down and opened it in X Code, like I say I don’t speak Objective-C but it seemed intuitive enough to work around, it is interesting to see how it hangs together. If you know Objective-C (I don’t) then you may want to have a look around the codebase. A way to set a default opening directory - Right now we need to open it and immediately open a new project.A documented or easy way to add plugins - Right now prior knowledge of Vim is assumed.Being able to make the app full screen - This is fairly common functionality across most OS X apps at this point.Being able to open the app from the command line - I tried a few different methods but couldn’t get my current path passed in correctly.I don’t know if Tae Won Ha will ever read this, but if he does, first of all hi and thank you! and secondly, here are some things I would love to see implemented at some stage This is maybe a silly project to test with, but by pressing CMD+Shift+O I was able to get into Quick Open which allows me to start typing filenames in a fuzzy way and when I tested it on a large rails project it works great. It noticed I was using Python and has applied syntax highlighting correctly, I can also see just the two files that are in this project (see the following image) Project view of Vimr The first thing I wanted to do is open a project I have been working on to get a feel for how it acts on a project. To do this I pressed CMD+O.Įverything looks good. The sidebar file browser defaults to your home directory, which makes sense, I looked to see if I can configure this and at the moment you don’t seem to be able to. The very first time I opened up VimR my immediate first impression was “Yes! They use Solarised” which is the colour scheme that I use in my normal vimmings! Of course then I realised that this isn’t another copy of Vim, this is Vim, so it is reading my vimrc - which means no settings to change :-) ![]() Drag or move the extracted file ‘VimR.app’ into your Applications folder.I have my machine set up to auto extract compressed files once downloaded, if you don’t you will need to extract the file.Click the Download link, this will download a compressed file.If you have installed any Mac apps before from a website this won’t be new to you but if you haven’t the process is very simple To quote the creator of VimR, Tae Won Ha So, to summarize: the rationale behind VimR is to build an editor which offers the full Vim experience, even if I don’t use all features of Vim, but has other convenience features-found in many other editors and in Vim scripts-in a graphical form, improving the whole editing experience. MacVimFramework is a fork of MacVim which has been tweaked so that it can be used inside other projects. The slightly longer answer, if I follow what people have been saying correctly is that this an implementation of the MacVimFramework. The quick answer is that it is a more visual Vim environment, not dissimilar to MacVim. ![]() So what is VimR (apart from a refined Vim Experience for OS X!)? Note - The version I am using is v0.1.5, the creator has stated in several places that this is still very much a work in progress What is VimR I wasn’t that keen on Sublime when I tried it years ago, but have heard good things about it recently, so might check it out again at some point.Recently learned of something called VimR, the full title was VimR - Refined Vim Experience for OS X.Īs someone who a) uses Vim, b) runs OS X and c) enjoys refined experiences this had my attention. I am not fussed on how VSCode wants to dial-out all the time. Spacemacs was also nice, but it just felt a bit sluggish to me. There are some additional set-up steps here that you might find useful. MacVim is good too, once you give it a nice colour theme (but still not quite as nice on the eye as TextMate). ![]() I’ve had a similar experience - TextMate is just such a nice looking/feeling editor for the Mac. Tried to switch to other editors every year and always went back to my good old TextMate. I‘ve been a long time TextMate user, started using it in the early days of Rails v2 and was very happy with it.
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