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Dru
Dru

Reputation: 9820

Run MacVim Inside Terminal

I recently switched from Vim to MacVim because it has Ruby support, however, the separate UI is very inconvenient. Is there a way to run MacVim inside the terminal instead of mvim booting a separate UI?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3148

Answers (4)

lampShade
lampShade

Reputation: 4391

If you use homebrew (as you should) then you can use a one liner to get what you want just like I did. I needed ruby support to use the command-t plugin and this is the solution that I used. Here is where I found this solution

brew install https://raw.github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/master/duplicates/vim.rb

Upvotes: 0

zeroSkillz
zeroSkillz

Reputation: 1468

There is a way to launch MacVim from the command line, maybe that will get you part of the way to what you want?

[ Put this into your .profile or .zshrc file ]

function mvim { /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g $*; }

[credit] http://saikotroid.blogspot.com/2011/10/launching-macvim-from-command-line.html

Upvotes: 3

kejadlen
kejadlen

Reputation: 1599

One option is to make a symbolic link somewhere in your path:

ln -s `which mvim` vim

This will run MacVim in the terminal.

Upvotes: 7

Conner
Conner

Reputation: 31040

You want to compile vim with ruby support then. You can compile MacVim with ruby support and use the terminal vim that's contained inside its package at /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/vim. This article includes instructions on compiling MacVim with Ruby: http://connermcd.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/blogging-with-wordpress-vim-and-markdown/

Upvotes: 3

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