Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Charles wrote: >> Is there any reason still existing why MacVim is a separate project from the offical Vim repo? MacVim is stable and mature, and is probably fairly easily mergeable into Vim. One benefit of pulling MacVim into regular Vim is: MacVim will never be behind Vim in patch level. Also, in mainline Vim, the Carbon GUI is effectively dead. If mainline Vim wants an OSX GUI, it should pull in MacVim. It works all the way back to 10.4, and if support of even older machines is desired, >> the Carbon option can be kept. > The main reason it's a separate project is because there are different people working on MacVim. This way the project can progress > independently.
It seems to me that it no longer needs to progress independently (though at the beginning, this was the wise choice). There are hardly ever any changes anymore, apart from pulling in mainline Vim patches. > I have already offered in the past to include relevant changes into core > Vim. It's just a matter of providing me with the patch. Preferably tested :-). I'm no expert, but I think Bram would have to pull in the entire src/MacVim directory, minus things that only make sense for a separate MacVim (like custom icons and Sparkle updating). Also, several files in $VIMRUNTIME are modified, especially $VIMRUNTIME/doc. The big configure file has tons of differences. And there are #IFDEF FEAT_GUI_MACVIM blocks all over the place in /src. This would require a heroic effort on the part of people who know what the heck they're doing, but it sure seems better to do this once than to have to keep doing it every N months to catch up on patchlevel. > Preferably tested :-). FWIW, I logged into the only remote Linux box I have access to, and cloned the MacVim repo as-is (it's currently at 7.4.622). Configuration and building succeeded without having to do anything preparatory, and I can successfully use the Vim binary. "make clean" failed because it wanted to call `xcodebuild`, but I think it's to be expected that "configure" and "makefile" will need some tweaking. Lastly, IMHO this is only a good idea if certain specific MacVim-only things are pulled in. I'm thinking especially of MacVim's true fullscreen mode, and the fact that one can choose whether one wants it to behave in the old fast way or the modern slow way. Fullscreen mode (fast version) in MacVim is, for me, 75% of the reason to use MacVim instead of just good old Vim in a terminal (or the X11 GUI). The other 25% is the ability to use the Cmd key as a modifer in the LHS of mappings. These two things are workflow-impacting. There is precedent in Vim for there to be a few special things limited to certain GUIs (such as tear-off menus, IIRC), so I hope that this sort of thing would be accepted into Vim proper. -Charles -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_mac+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
