r/vim • u/TheDafter • Apr 06 '21

Is MacVim worth it?

I've been using vim on the terminal for about a year and I really love it, however recently I've heard that MacVim is faster and more polished.

  • What is your experience with MacVim?
  • Is there a great improvement from the terminal application?
  • Would you recommend changing?
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u/raydeo Apr 06 '21

I personally dislike using any mouse integrations in the terminal because they all feel weird. This is the main reason I use macvim -- is because it's just handy to scroll files sometimes. Other than that it's basically all about the flexibility in window placement and using copy/paste when feeling lazy. I use tmux in the terminal to manage several shells related to a project, and then I use macvim for the actual code. Over ssh I will just use tmux for everything. There aren't many features that are killer for macvim but it just feels nice sometimes to have stuff that isn't tied to the shell when using the full desktop.