Tweaking MacVim
While Mac OS X traditionally ships with Vim, most users get a better experience through MacVim. Another benefit of going MacVim instead of the system-provided Vim is that of having a build with more built-ins. For instance, the default Vim does not come with Ruby or Python support, although those interpreters are part of Mac OS X.
While you may download MacVim directly, you may also obtain it via Homebrew, my OS X package manager of choice: brew install macvim
The default settings in MacVim are fine, but as usual, tuning is king.
First-off, do yourself a favor and install Pathogen to make Vim plugins management just sane.
I don’t have a ton of plugins in use albeit:
- NERDTree, a nice sidebar to deal with files, and
- Molokai, a nice theme which is the default in SublimeText2, and
- vim-markdown, aka Markdown support.
Now for the whole of my settings, here is the latest version of my .vimrc:
What’s yours like?
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