

Make Vim interoperable with the system clipboard. What is accomplished with this feature is two-fold: If you have a Mac that isn't very old, you will be running OS X, also calledĭarwin. See the file "src/INSTALLmac.txt" that comes with the source files. Send a message to the current MacVim Compiling Vim mac-compile When reporting any Mac specific bug or feature change, please use the vim-mac maillist vim-mac. In a terminal CTRL-^ needs to be entered as Shift-Control-6. Applications/Vim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g \ze\n') = Q: How do I start the GUI from the command line?Ī: Assuming that Vim.app is located in /Applications: Q: I can't enter non-ASCII character in Apple Terminal.Ī: Under Window Settings, Emulation, make sure that "Escape non-ASCII The following mappings are available for cut/copy/paste from/to clipboard. The 'nocompatible' option is set, otherwise it will only handle mac format These filesĬan be in any format (mac, dos or unix). " are discouraged, thus the rcįiles are named " vimrc" or " _vimrc" and " gvimrc" or " _gvimrc". On older systems files starting with a dot ". When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to define It is recommended to use Unix style line separators for Vim scripts, thus a

You can use the $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME variable. If the path doesn't start by neither a " /" nor " :" ,Īnd a " :" is found before a " /" then the path is absoluteĮdit the file "main.c" in the folder "src" in the current folderĮdit the file "os_mac.c" in the current folder. If the path start by a " :", the path is relative If the path start by a " /", the path is absolute

relative to the "Desktop"), the following In order to determine if the specified filename is relative to theĬurrent folder or absolute (i.e. Starting with Vim version 7 you can just use the unix path separators with

Initial Macintosh release, VIM version 3.0 There was a Mac port for version 3.0 of Vim. This file documents the particularities of the Macintosh version of Vim. VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar et al.
