Mac

The Neovim.app project for Mac OS X has recently got multiple window support. It’s starting to feel closer to MacVim, although you’ll still need to build it yourself.

I tried sourcing my .vimrc in it, and it worked pretty well without many changes…

If you’ve updated to Mac OS X Yosemite MacVim won’t display a window, then try reinstalling it with brew install macvim. There's a discussion about it on the macvim issues page. The latest release is quite old (Snapshot 73), which you can download directly from here: b4winckler / macvim /…

WinMan now has a website and GitHub repository. The repository doesn’t have any source code — the author isn’t sure if it will be open source yet.

WinMan is a “window manager” for OS X that handles windows, apps and other things using Vim-like expressions. If you are used to and love Vim…

VimR

I’ve just managed to build VimR by Tae Won Ha. It’s a Mac version of Vim that started out as an attempt to get the author’s earlier MacVimFramework…

Thai Pangsakulyanont sent in vim-reveal-in-finder (GitHub: henrik / vim-reveal-in-finder, License: MIT), a plugin that can open the current path in Finder. It uses the open command that Mac OS…

Here’s an interesting project for Objective-C developers: MacVimFramework, a fork of MacVim that allows you to use a MacVim view in your own applications. To use it, you’ll need to link against PSMTabBarControl.framework and MacVimFramework.framework.

vim-anywhere by Chris Knadler is a set of scripts that allow you to invoke Vim for anything that lets you input text. That means the next time you’re filling out an annoying web form you can spawn Vim, write your text, then once you save and quit it’ll be inserted into the field.

Björn Winckler has released MacVim builds for Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks): https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/releases. Mavericks is a free upgrade, and as usual Björn won’t be maintaining MacVim for previous releases of Mac OS.

Since I’ve upgraded my Mac…

Holy Light by Samy Dindane is a plugin for Macs that changes the background variable based on the amount of ambient light recorded by Mac's light sensor.

The sensor is interrogated using a binary program, the source of which can be found here: holylight-checker.mm. The program works…