macvim VS winget-pkgs

Compare macvim vs winget-pkgs and see what are their differences.

macvim

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

winget-pkgs

The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository (by microsoft)
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macvim winget-pkgs
20 96
7,414 7,930
0.4% 2.4%
9.8 10.0
about 2 months ago 3 days ago
Vim Script PowerShell
Vim License MIT 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.

winget-pkgs

Posts with mentions or reviews of winget-pkgs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • MS and Windows gets a lot of (well deserved) hate, but winget is just fantastic!
    3 projects | /r/Windows11 | 6 Dec 2023
    Take dropbox as an example. This is what the yaml manifest looks like for that if you install it through winget. It literally has a hardcoded link to an .exe installer hosted by dropbox and then just set the flags to silent. I am not spreading misinformation, you are.
  • PowerToys Release 0.71
    2 projects | /r/windows | 6 Jul 2023
  • installed from winget, where is it located?
    2 projects | /r/scrcpy | 19 Jun 2023
    I never used winget, but probably: - https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/107858 - https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/issues/4027
  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC - A Comprehensive Exploration of a Multimedia Powerhouse
    6 projects | /r/windows | 18 May 2023
    It's probably not on the Store, winget pulls from both the Store and a community collection of manifests on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
  • Seven.zip
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 May 2023
    I think that's part of the problem, if you don't have that package manager to bootstrap your signature key ring, DNS is your next best bootstrap. It is, of course, a terrible bootstrap for trust, but it is one so many users on Windows have been relying on for such a long time.

    For power users on any modern Windows 10/Windows 11 there is at least WinGet now. Its manifests repo is becoming a very interesting (open) source of truth for common Windows applications. Admittedly, it in most cases doesn't seem to be checking specific code signatures in most cases either, but at least includes SHA checksums.

    For instance, 7zip's manifests: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...

    It's too bad there's still not a great option for "average user that doesn't know/trust how to use a CLI", given how sadly polluted the Microsoft Store can be for many common, especially Open Source, applications. For direct instance, because winget kindly includes Microsoft Store results when searching, there is a "7zip 22" in the Microsoft Store that costs some amount of money (winget details say "PaidUnknownPrice" for the pricing information; I'm on a corporate machine right now with the actual Store access locked so can't search in the actual Store right now) and the Publisher is listed as RepackagerExpress.com. (That website currently doesn't go anywhere, giving it a spot check.)

    Having seen this, I may boot up my personal machine and try to report this specific Store listing for violating the Store's Open Source policies, though I'm unsure if such whackamole is all that useful. (Seems like it might be a useful winget feature request for it to provide Store Report URLs.)

  • [Sysadmin] Repo local Winget
    2 projects | /r/enfrancais | 27 Apr 2023
  • Winget local repository with links only
    3 projects | /r/sysadmin | 13 Apr 2023
    I would like to create a local winget source where I add manifests that my company accepts. To begin with it should only include jdk 8 from eclipse adoptium temurin. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifests/e/EclipseAdoptium/Temurin/8/JDK/8.0.302.8/EclipseAdoptium.Temurin.8.JDK.installer.yaml
  • Programs that don't work in Windows
    5 projects | /r/linux | 24 Mar 2023
  • i've had Bitwarden for a year and never seen a update message. is this normal?
    3 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 27 Feb 2023
    It's community driven, see https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
    3 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 27 Feb 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing macvim and winget-pkgs you can also consider the following projects:

vimr - VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS in Swift

ansible.windows - Windows core collection for Ansible

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.

ctags - A maintained ctags implementation

appget - Free and open package manager for Windows.

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

Vim - The official Vim repository

winget-intune-win32 - Repository containing examples of how to use winget from Intune, also in system context.

gsudo - Sudo for Windows

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:

winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).