I'd like vim available in terminal. Any guidance would be appreciated. This is separate (or is it?) from a carbonized version of MacVIM. [My perspective is...
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Ken Scott
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Oct 15, 2001 5:16 pm
If you have the Developer Tools installed, then having vim in Terminal is simple. Just download the current Unix source code, expand it somewhere (your home...
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Eugene Lee
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Oct 15, 2001 6:38 pm
... 1) making a working directory $ mkdir vim-work $ cd vim-work 1) download the source $ curl -O ftp://ftp.us.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-6.0-rt1.tar.gz $ curl...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Oct 16, 2001 2:31 am
... [6 steps snipped] Thanks for the detailed instructions. For those who do not have the "developer tools" installed (tsk, tsk) there are pre-compiled...
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Eugene Lee
eugene@...
Oct 16, 2001 5:17 am
... No problemo. I'm waiting for a version of MacVim that can be compiled with Apple's Developer Tools to make a nice Cocoa app. :) -- Eugene Lee ...
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Ken Scott
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Oct 16, 2001 2:43 pm
... The current Vim source code (if you include the extra archive) is supposed to build a Carbon version of Vim. In my experience, this is technically true --...
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gmark@...
Oct 16, 2001 11:25 pm
... I must be missing something. I've been using it in terminal, but haven't been able to get an OSX-native desktop icon VIM. Mark...
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Ken Scott
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Oct 19, 2001 12:01 am
... I have not been able to build a functioning gvim for Mac OS X either. I am hopeful that the Carbon version will start behaving for me. Ken -- <>< Ken...
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Eugene Lee
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Oct 19, 2001 12:24 am
... Gvim is an X11 app. It runs fine if you have XFree86 and XDarwin installed. But this is not the same thing as a Cocoa/Carbon app that runs native on OS...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Oct 19, 2001 5:29 am
... This is different from the 'runtimepath' option. ... This is the opposite of what I see. I want $VIM to be set to /path/to/vim, but it is set to...
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Dany St-Amant
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Oct 21, 2001 2:13 am
Hi, On MacOS X, I encountered a small problem in mbyte.c. It was due to the fact that the environment variable LANG is not set under MacOS X. A patch avoiding ...
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Eugene Lee
eugene@...
Oct 21, 2001 9:48 am
... My LANG is by default set to "en", but I'm using /bin/bash (which I built myself a while ago). And even when I unset LANG, I don't get any kind of crash....
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 21, 2001 11:12 am
... Good point. This may happen on more systems, especially if setlocale() isn't supported. I notice the comment for this function is also wrong. I'll make a...
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Gregory Seidman
gseidman@...
Oct 24, 2001 12:12 am
Hey there. I'm trying to get ramped up on the vim codebase so I can achieve the following goals: 1) a frontend for OpenStep/GNUstep/MacOS X, comparable to the...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Oct 24, 2001 2:07 am
... Now that there is a version of OS X that seems to work (for me) I would like to see a GUI vim for it. (If only my poor old NeXT had lived to see this!) ...
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Dany St-Amant
dany.stamant@...
Oct 24, 2001 2:57 am
... Vim 6.0 under MacOS X can be compiled out-of-the-box from Terminal.app, with XonX (I only tried the Athena Widget), and with Carbon (need patch 6.0.018). ...
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Eugene Lee
eugene@...
Oct 24, 2001 4:30 am
... [...] ... Actually, I would prefer a Cocoa port instead of a frontend. And if this could be done, a simple frontend to launch the Cocoa app would be ...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 24, 2001 9:20 am
... Oh, you have my support for attempting to implement this, trying various alternatives and showing how it works. But I won't include anything unless I'm...
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Zdenek Sekera
zs@...
Oct 24, 2001 12:37 pm
... That already should take care of a few of your weekends, Greg :-) But, no doubt, it would be a great feature. ... E.g. can't edit the same file in...
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Benji Fisher
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Oct 25, 2001 1:21 pm
... [snip] ... I can conform that it is easy to compile a terminal-only version using terminal.app under Mac OS X.1. ./configure, make, make install. Can you...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Oct 25, 2001 1:39 pm
... Here is a modification of Eugene Lee's instructions. The main changes are to the method of applying patches (which still gives some warning messages, I am...
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Eugene Lee
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Oct 25, 2001 5:58 pm
... I didn't use the interactive FTP method, because I don't know how many people actually know how to use the command-line FTP client. ... The "11" needs to...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Oct 25, 2001 6:25 pm
... [snip] ... I still think it should be -p2. Maybe I am wrong: yesterday was my first experience using the patch program, and I had to spend some time with...
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Eugene Lee
eugene@...
Oct 25, 2001 7:12 pm
... The README in the patches directory suggests this: Before patching, change to the top Vim directory, where the "src" and "runtime" directories are located....
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Ken Scott
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Oct 25, 2001 7:17 pm
... FWIW, I've always done "patch -p0 < blah" from the top level vim directory (vim60 these days) and have never had a problem. Thanks for the for snippet to...
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Dany St-Amant
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Oct 26, 2001 2:50 am
... I haven't yet tried to compile a Carbon version from the Terminal.app. I'll take a look at how Project Builder do the compilation to see what I can do, but...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Oct 26, 2001 11:39 am
Dany: Thanks for the reply, not to mention all the work you do! ... It is not that important; I can use PB. I only asked because I mis-read what you said...
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Dany St-Amant
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Oct 29, 2001 2:47 am
... I did some retesting and the support for the ! is partial. There's a comment in os_mac.h which mention that the output of the shell go into the debugger....
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Dany St-Amant
dany.stamant@...
Oct 31, 2001 4:43 am
... The discussion is around using the Carbon MacOS X version, with some extra unix support (-DMACOS_X_UNIX). So it doesn't apply to your situation. Not being...
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Gregory Seidman
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Oct 31, 2001 5:12 am
Has anyone prepared a package containing vim and gvim binaries compiled against Carbon with MacOS X unix support? If someone has done so, it would be great if...
