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For those confused, this project uses a fork of macvim that the author himself turned into a framework(osx library) to be used in third party programs. [1]

(Kinda how some linux projects used xembed to embed gvim into their apps, eclim also used to have a mode to embed gvim into eclipse)

Think of it as a proof of concept implementation for a vim editor based on the macvim framework version. At worst, you don't really give a crap. At best you can use this in your own editor/ide/debugger/whatever.

The wording not emulated as mentioned in a post below is in reference to vi emulation in eclipse/idea/sublime/atom/xvim or one of the other 1000 editors that have vi keybindings.

Ps. I'm not affiliated in any way, I still use tmux and console vim, but I've been following this project for a while.

[1] https://github.com/qvacua/macvim



Thank you. I was really wondering what is so special about a GUI vim. I thought that exited for a while.


This sounds really interesting. I wonder if this would be useful for a project like XVim (Vim mode for Xcode: https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim)




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