I recently tried to get vim up to version 7.2 on leopard (so that i could get vimball working and install plugins). In the end I settled for using the copy of vim that comes with MacVim and setting up an alias:
alias vim='/Users/logaan/Downloads/MacVim-7_2-stable-1_2\ 2/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim'
But before I went to this extreme I tried:
- Port: The files downloaded didn’t match the checksum.
- Fink: The version was old but installed properly. Then didn’t work.
- Manual Compile: Didn’t setup the right paths for plugins, etc.
If you want to do it my way grab the latest version of MacVim from http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ install, then right click on MacVim.app and show contents. Navigate into the MacOS folder and you should see ‘Vim’. Open up ~/.bash_profile in your favorite text editor and type alias vim='' then drag the ‘Vim’ application between the quotes. It should insert the full path to the app.
It’s not pretty, but it works.
I updated my Vim with MacPorts. I’m using v 7.2.065. Try:
sudo port install vim-app +big+ruby+python+cscope
Then all you have to do is run gvim from your terminal or open from finder /Applications/Macports/Vim-App
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