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Browsing complex file hierarchies and large projects isn't great inside a terminal, and is a giant hurdle for many new users of vim. This is a polished port of macvim that has a file drawer, which is a feature that many people want baked into macvim. I love the negativity in many of the responses here. VimR Sounds Stupid, why not use MacVim or Vim?ДЄ commenter on the original Hacker News article I linked to said it better than I could I have pulled it down and opened it in X Code, like I say I don't speak Objective-C but it seemed intuitive enough to work around, it is interesting to see how it hangs together.

If you know Objective-C (I don't) then you may want to have a look around the codebase.

A way to set a defaultВ opening directory - Right now we need to open it and immediately open a new project.

A documented or easy way to add plugins - Right now prior knowledge of Vim is assumed.

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Being able to make the app full screen - This is fairly common functionality across most OS X apps at this point.

Being able to open the app from the command line - I tried a few different methods but couldn't get my current path passed in correctly.

I don't know if Tae Won Ha will ever read this, but if he does, first of all hi and thank you! and secondly, here are some things I would love to see implemented at some stage This is maybe a silly project to test with, but by pressing CMD+Shift+O I was able to get into Quick Open which allows me to start typing filenames in a fuzzy way and when I tested it on a large rails project it works great. It noticed I was using Python and has applied syntax highlighting correctly, I can also see just the two files that are in this project (see the following image) Project view of Vimr The first thing I wanted to do is open a project I have been working on to get a feel for how it acts on a project.В To do this I pressed CMD+O.Д®verything looks good. The sidebar file browser defaults to your home directory, which makes sense, I looked to see if I can configure this and at the moment you don't seem to be able to. The very first time I opened up VimR my immediate first impression was 'Yes! They use Solarised' which is the colour scheme that I use in my normal vimmings! Of course then I realised that this isn't another copy of Vim, this *is* Vim, so it is reading my vimrc - which means no settings to change :-)

Drag or move the extracted file 'VimR.app' into your Applications folder.

I have my machine set up to auto extract compressed files once downloaded, if you don't you will need to extract the file.

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Click the Download link, this will download a compressed file.

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If you have installed any Mac apps before from a website this won't be new to you but if you haven't the process is very simple So, to summarize: the rationale behind VimR is to build an editor which offers the full Vim experience, even if I donвЂ™t use all features of Vim, but has other convenience features-found in many other editors and in Vim scripts-in a graphical form, improving the whole editing experience. To quote the creator of VimR, Tae Won Ha MacVimFrameworkВ is a fork of MacVim which has beenВ tweaked so that it can be used inside other projects. The slightly longer answer, if I follow what people have been saying correctly is that thisВ an implementation of the MacVimFramework. The quick answer is that it is a more visual Vim environment, not dissimilar to MacVim. So what is VimR (apart from a refined Vim Experience for OS X!)?

Note - The version I am using is v0.1.5, the creator has stated in several places that this is still very much a work in progress What is VimR

Recently I noticed a post on Hacker News about something called VimR, the full title was VimR - Refined Vim Experience for OS X.ДЄs someone who a) uses Vim, b) runs OS X and c) enjoys refined experiences this had my attention.