Doesn't work for me on either macbook or imac, running mavericks.
VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
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Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
#22For those confused, this project uses a fork of macvim that the author himself turned into a framework(osx library) to be used in third party programs. [1]
(Kinda how some linux projects used xembed to embed gvim into their apps, eclim also used to have a mode to embed gvim into eclipse)
Think of it as a proof of concept implementation for a vim editor based on the macvim framework version. At worst, you don't really give a crap. At best you can use this in your own editor/ide/debugger/whatever.
The wording not emulated as mentioned in a post below is in reference to vi emulation in eclipse/idea/sublime/atom/xvim or one of the other 1000 editors that have vi keybindings.
Ps. I'm not affiliated in any way, I still use tmux and console vim, but I've been following this project for a while.
Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
#23I love the idea. I use terminal Vim as my daily editor, and could see myself switching (at least part-time) to something like this.
Yes, you can achieve all this using plugins like NERDTree and Ctrl-p, but sometimes a polished GUI just provides a better experience than any ncurses-based interface can. And you're not giving anything up in the process—you can still open NERDTree from VimR if you want to.
Hope the negativity here isn't discouraging. I'm really excited to see where this project goes.
Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
#24I fail to see how this is better than to use gvim, which is crossplatform, together with NERDTree, CTRL+p + some other language specific plugins that can run on your server, on your desktop (which can be windows, linux or osx, whatever you like). Feels like the authors effort would be better spent on helping some project like NeoVim instead. https://github.com/neovim/neovim
Did you even use it?
I can't ask questions if I haven't used it? I have no interest of trying this out since it's mac exclusive.
Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
#25I fail to see how this is better than to use gvim, which is crossplatform, together with NERDTree, CTRL+p + some other language specific plugins that can run on your server, on your desktop (which can be windows, linux or osx, whatever you like). Feels like the authors effort would be better spent on helping some project like NeoVim instead. https://github.com/neovim/neovim
>I fail to see how this is better than to use gvim, which is crossplatform, together with NERDTree, CTRL+p + some other language specific plugins that can run on your server, on your desktop (which can be windows, linux or osx, whatever you like).
It's better for people that could not care less using a version that's "cross platform" as the lowest common denominator, and want something that runs well and with native hooks to the platforms they use.
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#26I love the negativity in many of the responses here. Obviously people like native apps. Macvim is a thing. Emacs has a gui version for os x. Sublime is a thing. This is a polished port of macvim that has a file drawer, which is a feature that many people want baked into macvim. Browsing complex file hierarchies and large projects isn't great inside a terminal, and is a giant hurdle for many new users of vim.
If this isn't for you then fine but don't rush here to proudly proclaim how you don't understand the point of this. I don't know why anyone submits their pet projects here.
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#27As a MacVim user, I find this intriguing. It seems to work very well for my needs. I particularly like the built-in Markdown preview.
My only gripe so far is that I'd like to be able to configure additional filtering for the fuzzy file find to, for example, make it automatically ignore node_modules folders.
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#28This looks very promising. I use MacVim daily and being able to extend the GUI (like the markdown plugin) sounds awesome.
I already see tons of possible plugin. A simple one would be to have a webkit window which reloads the page when working on a web project, with javascript bindings on the webkit window there is a lot of potential.
Or an OpenGL shader preview for real time GLSL editing.
Could also be simply a documentation browser.
There are many tools I'd like to integrate more with my editor.
To all the haters, use your imagination, it's much more than just vim in the terminal. And I'm well aware that I can have a gazillion window open (web browser, doc browser, shader preview, game window...), but this kind of integration can improve productivity and reduce frustrations.
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#29Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
#30It would be awesome if you could add in some kind of package manager like sublime text has.