macvim VS vim-appimage

Compare macvim vs vim-appimage and see what are their differences.

macvim

Vim - the text editor - for macOS (by macvim-dev)

vim-appimage

AppImage for gVim (by vim)
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macvim vim-appimage
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7,414 111
0.4% 3.6%
9.8 9.2
about 2 months ago 1 day ago
Vim Script Shell
Vim License -
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macvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of macvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-05.
  • Ask HN: Is Vim Dead?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2024
    I sure hope mainline Vim isn't dead. I keep trying NeoVim but I prefer using Vim in a GUI and no NeoVim GUI I've found has the level of polish that MacVim [1] has. VimR [2] comes close but keep finding myself going back to MacVim.

    [1] https://macvim.org/

  • Vim 9 adds virtual text
    3 projects | /r/vim | 5 Aug 2022
    This is already part of the official Vim (through the patches). The various Linux distributions and MacOS ship Vim with various patches. So this will be available whenever these distributions decide to include this patch. If you want to use the latest Vim without waiting for the official distribution, you can download it from: Windows: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases MacOS: https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases Linux: You can build the latest sources.
  • Vim 9 has been released
    7 projects | /r/vim | 28 Jun 2022
    The Mac Vim repository is synced up to Vim 9.0.0001 (https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/commit/adfe7be38282da7d772cca025ebbe5080085ef6f). If you have compiler installed in your system, you can build the sources. I am not sure why the corresponding release package is not made available.
  • Notepad Next
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2022
    gVim (only on windows/linux) with a minimal config is my preferred. Fast but a few powerful built-in vim features like search, replace, syntax highlighting, spellchecking, auto-indent etc. It loads in about 1.5s on my machine and renders the text nicely.

    Maybe take a look at https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim on mac, perhaps someone can comment about the state of macvim?

  • What are your favourite mac apps ?
    8 projects | /r/macapps | 13 Oct 2021
    Mac Vim - editing text / code
  • Vim 9 update
    4 projects | /r/vim | 31 May 2021
    MacOS: https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases
  • Vim 9 - Update
    3 projects | /r/vim | 21 Apr 2021
    If you want to try out Vim9, you can download the latest Win32 binaries from: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases. For MacOS, you can use https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/
  • Is MacVim worth it?
    6 projects | /r/vim | 6 Apr 2021
    It’s merged from vim every few weeks (https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/wiki/Merging-from-upstream-Vim) and is listed on the main vim download page. It’s pretty standard vim.
    6 projects | /r/vim | 6 Apr 2021
    You can read up on MacVim's docs though no here: https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/blob/master/runtime/doc/gui_mac.txt. Features MacVim support include being bundled as a Mac app, can bind menu items to TouchBar, supports touch pad gestures, drag-and-drop, full-screen support, can launch using a mvim:// protocol (e.g. in iTerm2 you can tell it to launch MacVim when you click on a file path), etc.
  • Vim in iTerm2?
    2 projects | /r/vim | 29 Dec 2020
    in your ~/.gvimrc. mvim being a convenience script provided by MacVim.

vim-appimage

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-appimage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-31.
  • Vim 9 update
    4 projects | /r/vim | 31 May 2021
    Or try the appimage: https://github.com/vim/vim-appimage

What are some alternatives?

When comparing macvim and vim-appimage you can also consider the following projects:

vimr - VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS in Swift

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

vim9 - An experimental fork of Vim, exploring ways to make Vim script faster and better.

Vim - The official Vim repository

vim-win32-installer - Vim Win32 Installer

notepad2 - Notepad2-zufuliu is a light-weight Scintilla based text editor for Windows with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin metapath-zufuliu.

NotepadNext - A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++

notepadqq - A simple, general-purpose editor for Linux

Alfred-Extensions

geany-jedi-complete - a Geany plugin to provide code completion (Python) using jedi

Notepad3 - Notepad like text editor based on the Scintilla source code. Notepad3 based on code from Notepad2 and MiniPath on code from metapath. Download Notepad3: