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#Getting macvim install#

Other reasons I am preferring Vim over TextMate lately are Tim Pope’s excellent plugins: Rails.vim, and (for Git).

It is a paid product, but it’s worth the cost if you like to make your environment worth tolook at it. None of them are a pretty Cocoa GUI like PeepOpen. That duplicate and improve on Command-T’s functionality already, like Improvement over TextMate’s Command-T file picker. Statusline is getting wrapped to the next line in iTerm2.

#Getting macvim install#

Secondly, there is Geoffrey Grosenbach’s PeepOpen. Any terminal vim version with Python 3.2+ or Python 2.6+ support should work, but if you’re using MacVim you need to install it using the following command: brew install macvim -env-std -override-system-vim. You should now have the option to show the sidebar

launch MacVim and press command-, to get the preferences window.

brew uninstall macvim if you already had it installed.

you may need to update the version if it has changed.

you can either delete the md5 line or calculate the md5 of your tgz file with: md5.

change the line with the URL to something like file:///Users/ivan/dev/.

install homebrew if you haven’t already.

The easiest way I found to install Alloy’s fork is to use the normal homebrew recipe for macvim, but edit it, and point it to a new tarball that you’ve created. It gives you a nice Mac-like sidebar, project drawer - just like TextMate.

Especially with these modifications I’m about to show you that make it… pretty!įirst, there is Alloy’s MacVim fork.

I have to admit, I bounce back and forth between TextMate and MacVim, and am closely watching my new up and coming favorite, Vico. Almost everyone has their favorite, and your colleague, conference mate, or cellmate will rabidly talk your ear off about one editor versus another.