Macvim

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 /…

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…

I’ve been watching with interest to see how fellow Vimmers are coping with the migration to Mac OS X: Mavericks. It sounds like MacVim has minor build issues, but even Homebrew was struggling so don’t rush to upgrade just yet.

Alternate MacVim Icon

Drew Yeaton posted to the vim_mac group about an icon he created for MacVim:

MacVim snapshot 66 was released earlier this month, which has some bug fixes and updates Vim to 7.3.754.

Bjorn has also moved the binary releases to Google Code, because GitHub has stopped hosting binaries. If you’re looking for the latest MacVim release, remember to download…

MacVim Retina Speed Issues

If you use MacVim and are lucky enough to own a MacBook Pro with a Retina display, then you may have noticed…