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Use Terminal's vi as default text editor
Authored by: acrollet on Thu, Mar 13 2008 at 8:18AM PDT

I actually find that the newest snapshot of MacVim is very nice indeed. The cocoa/OS X integration is very well done, and comes with an installer for an Input driver that will give you a single keystroke to edit any cocoa text field in MacVim. (safari, mail, etc. all work) I would recommend that anyone who likes using vim go and download the snapshot, and donate to the developer if you like using it - his ibook recently died...

Use Terminal's vi as default text editor
Authored by: Seth Milliken on Thu, Mar 13 2008 at 5:15PM PDT

+1 MacVim

Use Terminal's vi as default text editor
Authored by: lsloan on Tue, Dec 23 2008 at 2:12PM PST

+1 MacVim && +1 iTerm

I prefer iTerm over Terminal, but I think it's wise to write this hint using Terminal, since everybody should have it. An iTerm version should be added, too, though.

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