My favorites | Sign in
Project Home Issues
Project Information
Members
Links

MacVim is the text editor Vim for Mac OS X.

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.),
  • transparent backgrounds,
  • full-screen mode,
  • multibyte editing with OS X input methods and automatic font substitution,
  • ODB editor support,
and more. Most importantly, MacVim brings you the full power of Vim 7.4 to Mac OS X.

Download

The latest build based on Vim 7.4 can be downloaded from MacVim releases. Targeted builds for OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 are available, so make sure you choose the one that matches your version of OS X.

Legacy Mac OS X downloads

Choose the appropriate download depending on your version of Mac OS X:

MacVim is distributed under a Charityware license (type :h license inside MacVim for details). If you find MacVim a useful addition to your life please consider helping needy children in Uganda.

Help

Many common problems can be solved by going through the troubleshooting guide. Failing that, there are two Google groups where you can ask Vim-related questions:

  • vim_use: for general questions on how to use Vim.
  • vim_mac: for questions that are specific to using Vim on Mac OS X.

Please read the guidelines before posting. In particular, please do not top-post when replying to messages. That is, type your reply below the text you are replying to and remove irrelevant text from the original.

Note that you do not need to subscribe to email notifications when signing up for either of these groups. You can read the groups online if you would rather keep your inbox clean. These groups are moderated so your first post may take up to a day before it arrives to the group (subsequent posts should show up within a few minutes).

Move to GitHub

The MacVim source code and wiki is hosted on GitHub. The issue tracker is still hosted on this site however.

Powered by Google Project Hosting