From TextMate to MacVim: Vim installation

by Samson Wu on August 24, 2010 in Share, Technique, Vim with 4 Comments and 9,572 views

本文分成两部分，前半部分介绍用macports安装terminal版本的vim，后半部分介绍gui版本的MacVim的安装，一般不推荐在macports里面安装vim的gui variants，想象一下编译的时间……

[MacPorts Vim Installation]
MacPorts的Vim 3天前刚刚更新到7.3.3，为了安装最新的版本，我们需要首先更新同步一下macports的port file tree：

$ sudo port -v selfupdate

安装之前先查看一下这个Vim包的variants：

$ port variants vim

vim has the variants:
athena: Build GUI version using Athena widgets
* conflicts with gtk1 gtk2 motif
* requires x11
big: Build big feature set
* conflicts with small tiny
cscope: Enable source code browsing with cscope
gtk1: Build GUI version using GTK 1.x widgets
* conflicts with athena gtk2 motif
* requires x11
gtk2: Build GUI version using GTK 2.x widgets
* conflicts with athena gtk1 motif
* requires x11
huge: Build huge feature set
* conflicts with big small tiny
motif: Build GUI version with Motif widgets
* conflicts with athena gtk1 gtk2
* requires x11
nls: National Language Support
perl: Enable Perl scripting
python: Compatibility variant, requires +python25
* requires python25
python25: Enable Python scripting
* conflicts with python26 python27 python31
python26: Enable Python scripting
* conflicts with python25 python27 python31
python27: Enable Python scripting
* conflicts with python25 python26 python31
python31: Enable Python scripting
* conflicts with python25 python26 python27
ruby: Enable Ruby scripting
small: Build small feature set
* conflicts with tiny
tcl: Enable Tcl scripting
tiny: Build tiny feature set
universal: Build for multiple architectures
x: Compatibility variant, requires +x11
* requires x11
x11: Build CLI version with X support
xim: Build with support for X Input Method

可见其variants还真不少，光gui的variant就有4个：athena, gtk1, gtk2, motif，考虑到过长的编译时间以及稍后我们便会安装更mac friendly的MacVim，所以这儿我们不装任何的gui variant。另外由于我本机已经安装过python 2.6的macports，同理为了减少编译工作量和编译时间我这儿选择了python26的variant：

$ sudo port -v install vim +huge +nls +perl +ruby +python26

接下来便是长时间的下载和编译时间，cpu会很忙，泡杯咖啡，稍后继续……

[MacVim Installation]
ok，let’s go on. 上周macvim刚刚update到了7.3，如果你装的还是7.2的那么是时候更新了，7.3带来了persistent undo, relative number, color column, conceal text等等new features，以后有机会我们会慢慢介绍。

下载并解压：

$ wget http://github.com/downloads/b4winckler/macvim/MacVim-7_3-53.tbz
$ tar xjvf MacVim-7_3-53.tbz

安装MacVim.app到Applications，当然在Finder里面拖拽可能更符合mac安装app的习惯，不过anyway…：

$ cd MacVim-7_3-53
$ sudo mv MacVim.app /Applications/

同TextMate的mate类似，MacVim也提供了一个命令行启动的脚本mvim，一并安装之并建立一些symbol link给mvimdiff, mview等utility：

$ sudo cp -f mvim /usr/local/bin/mvim

$ sudo ln -s mvim /usr/local/bin/mvimdiff
$ sudo ln -s mvim /usr/local/bin/mview
$ sudo ln -s mvim /usr/local/bin/mex
$ sudo ln -s mvim /usr/local/bin/rmvim

以上安装已基本完成，下面是MacVim附带的一些配置，和vim本身的配置无多大关系，所以一并提供在此：

我希望最大化按钮work as I expected：

$ defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMZoomBoth 1

我有鼠标，虽然很山寨，但也有3个button，所以请把Ctrl键还给我，以后我们还要用Ctrl+LeftMouse来访问tag stack的：

$ defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMTranslateCtrlClick 0

还有一些MacVim的特有配置可以放到vimrc里去，所以我们以后聊到vimrc的时候再说不迟。