Hi Nico, On, Nico Weber wrote: Hi all and especially Hi Bjornthere was a patch on vimdev that indicates that some work on MacVim localization is being done. 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 older Carbon port of Vim. 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.). Save and quit:q: Quits Vim but fails when file has been changed:w: Save the file:w newname: Save the file with the newname filename:wq: Save the file and quit Vim.:q! Quit Vim without saving the changes to the file. ZZ: Write file, if modified, and quit Vim: ZQ: Same as:q! Quits Vim without writing changes:saveas file: Save file as:close. Apr 11, 2019 Vim (Vi IMproved) is an open-source text editor for Unix or Linux systems. It is a powerful and stable tool for editing and writing text, both in the command-line interface and as an independent application in a GUI.
'Vim' is a text editor application well-known for being very customizable with a Vim config file - '.vimrc'. Vim has a long history, and it is popular among Linux users and administrators, because it is included on most servers by default.
'Vim Options' is a Mac OS application that helps to visually edit your .vimrc. It will load a Vim config file and present the Vim settings in a categorized list. Each vim setting can be modified and saved. Builtin documentation helps to figure out the meaning and possible values of every option. Hundreds of options can be looked up by name using a search box.
Why is Vim Options useful?
When you become more advanced, or if you come to Vim from some other editor, you would want to modify the default vim settings. For example 'tabstop' option dictates how wide is the 'tab' key visually in terms of spaces. The default is that tabstop=8 spaces, which might be too wide. Using 'Vim Options' you can search for 'tabstop' and set it to '4'.
If you prefer spaces instead of tabs, tweak an 'expandtab' setting. Search for 'expandtab' and enable it with a checkbox. Now pressing the tab key would insert 4 spaces. Don't forget to save the modified vim config file to the .vimrc file in your Home folder.
Features:
- load & save Vim settings to .vimrc
- list of all Vim options by categories
- Vim GUI for editing your Vim config
- help documentation lookup for each of the Vim settings
- search options by name
Requires Mac OS X 10.8 or a newer Mac OS.
View Vim Options on the App Store
All configuration options for vim are stored in the user’s home directory in a file named .vimrc
The script code is below but there are somethings you’ll want to do before setting it up.
You’ll need to create directories for the following: backups, colors, swaps and undo. Daemon for mac free download.
Execute this command to set up the directories in the terminal ( The ~ character will set the path to your home directory. ex: /Users/username/ ):
$ cd ~/.vim ; mkdir backups ; mkdir colors ; mkdir swaps; mkdir undo;
This will keep all your backups, swaps and undos in your .vim user directory. Also the colors directory is for installing themes.
Visit vimninjas.com if you would like to download a color scheme. Once you find a color scheme you like, just download it and copy and paste the code into the relevant scheme file and place the file in ~/.vim/colors/
For example if you download the Candy theme, you would name the file candy.vim and place it in the relevant directory described above. Then in your .vimrc config file you would set the theme like so:
I've created a github repo with the .vimrc configuration. Please take a look at the repo and download from here.
Checkout or download the git zip and setup the .vimrc file by using the cp command.
$ cd ~/Downloads/MacOSVimConfig-master
$ cp vimrc-example ~/.vimrc
Mac Vim Gui
Otherwise you can create your .vimrc file by copying the Raw text from github and pasting the text below. NOTE: While in vim before you paste try doing this command.
:set paste
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Cisco webex teams download for mac. This should paste the text with the best result. Once the .vimrc file is configured open a new terminal windows and open a file to test out the setup.
$ vim ~/.vimrc
------------ .vimrc example configuration ------------------
Then paste in these configuration options: