I’m editing a few pages on a few sites today and realised that I didn’t have a proper text editor installed on my Mac desktop.
There is a text editor app, but it doesn’t have syntax highlighting, nor does it do a lot of the other funkier stuff that Vim does “out of the box”.
The silly thing is that a Google search for vim on osx (you can adjust the keywords to suit your taste) keeps taking me to this site, which doesn’t have a very recent version of vim. I’m sure their version is fine, but the installer is sadly lacking ie. you need to decompress files and move them around the place, whereas this sourceforge project is almost “sane”.
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