Help HN: Vim text editor install on mac

I'm finding it a little dificult to instal Vim on my mac, can anyone point out some good resources or a step by step.

thanks

A console version of Vim is part of a standard OS X install, is it not?

Seems like it. I just typed "vim" at a Terminal prompt in Leopard and was greeted with VIM 7.0.234.

I certainly didn't install that myself -- I use emacs on my local machines, although I admit I've been struggling to learn enough vi to do editing on remote servers.

I guess it's theoretically possible that vim came along with Xcode or MacPorts, but I can't imagine what I might have installed that had vim as a dependency.

dlimeb 18y

There is also http://code.google.com/p/macvim/, although it has to be built from source.

asp742 18y

This is my favorite version of vim on OS X. It uses Cocoa and is fast. There's a pre-built .app in the tarball on that site and a script to launch macvim from the command line.

pavelludiq 18y

http://macvim.org/OSX/index.php

gaius 18y

1) Use MacPorts 2) Send whatever error message you get to the package maintainer 3) Profit!

rincewind 18y

I used macports and porticus and installed vim-app.

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