Is this the right version of Vim for OS X Snow Leopard?

Question

I'd like to try Vim. I'm using Mac OS 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard). I downloaded vim7.0.224.tar.bz2 from here.

However, I have doubts. It's the newest version offered, but the heading says "OS X 10.4 (Tiger)".

Is there another, preferable version I should know about?

Answer 1

I believe that package of Vim for mac is dead. Try this one instead.

Answer 2

You should definitely check out MacVim. It's a port of Vim for the mac, written in Cocoa (like Safari, Mail and many other Mac apps). Regarding Snow Leopard compatibility, the developer says:

The stable build seems to run fine on Snow Leopard, but please consider using a snapshot instead as they are built specifically for Snow Leopard (the snapshot also runs on Leopard).

Answer 3

That is not the newest version. I'm not sure what the deal with that site is, but it seems to be out of date. MacVim currently lives at Google Code and I'm running 7.2 stable 1.2 successfully on Snow Leopard.

Answer 4

Both MacVim (the latest snapshot from Google Code) and the traditional curses vim can be easily installed and kept uptodate via MacPorts.

Answer 5

note that macvim is gui app and isnt really useful in the way that vim is. also macports version of vim is missing every useful feature