
It is included as vi with most UNIX systems and. Double-click the Terminal.app icon and the Terminal will open. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. Double-click the Utilities folder to open it. Put MacVim.app in your application, which is the /Applications directory (must be put in the application directory, otherwise terminal call: mvim will not. I think the :terminal feature is clunky, so my workflow (and the following suggestions) ignore that feature. one or multiple tabs will be opened in current vim instance. Scroll through until you find the Utilities folder. After opening terminal in vim (neovim,vim,macvim,gvim) just type: t filename1 filename2. MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to macOS that is meant to integrate seamlessly with the native user interface. On my iMac the background and foreground colors in Solarized Dark.terminal were initially too bright, but the color space used by my iMac is fairly close to sRGB, so most of the ANSI colors were not that far off. In the menu bar, click Go and select Applications. MacVim is a GUI version of vim for macOS.

In MacVIM, the colors show up perfectly, but I prefer using VIM via the Terminal. They are lighter/paler than they should be.

#TERMINAL IN MACVIM MAC OS X#
In Solarized Dark.terminal and Solarized Light.terminal, the 2*8 ANSI colors are specified in the sRGB color space, which seems to be identical with Device RGB at least on my iMac. I am trying to use the Solarized color scheme with VIM in Terminal on Mac OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion.
