MacVim

MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as: * bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (?Z, ?V, ?A, ?G, etc.

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macvim is a port of the text editor vim to mac os x.

macvim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:

* bindings to standard os x keyboard shortcuts (?z, ?v, ?a, ?g, etc.), * transparent backgrounds, * fullscreen mode, * multibyte editing with os x input methods and automatic font substitution, * odb editor support,

and more.

note: macvim is in no way connected with http://macvim.org . that site is no longer being maintained and only provides outdated binaries of the old carbon port of vim.

the macvim source code and wiki is now hosted on github: http://github.com/b4winckler/macvim

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