macvim-dev/macvim

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Vim - the text editor - for macOS

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Indexed issues: 202

Dominant language: Vim Script
License: Vim
Last GitHub push: Jun 23, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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202 issues indexed so far

Macvim from Homebrew formula missing ruby@4.0 Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1697 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 30, 2026
Adding filetype icons for more formats Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1696 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Multiple CVEs (fixed in vim 9.2.0933+) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1695 · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Unclear updater error message every time MacVim starts Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1686 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2026
The latest release MacVim_10.9.dmg is 9.2.321 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1678 · Opened Jun 16, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by GHSA-q4jv-r9gj-6cwv — heap buffer overflow in spellfile.c read_compound() (vim < 9.2.0450) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1660 · Opened May 18, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by GHSA-hwg5-3cxw-wvvg — OS command injection via backticks in 'path' option completion (vim < 9.2.0435) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1659 · Opened May 18, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by GHSA-cwgx-gcj7-6qh8 — command injection via backtick expansion in tag filenames (vim < 9.2.0357) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1658 · Opened May 18, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by GHSA-85ch-p2qr-m5gx — netrw OS command injection via sftp:/file: URL tempfile suffix (vim < 9.2.0383) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1657 · Opened May 18, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by GHSA-66hr-7p6x-x5j3 — netrw NetrwMarkFile() code injection via crafted filename (vim < 9.2.0480) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1656 · Opened May 18, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by GHSA-2fpv-9ff7-xg5w — tar.vim command injection via crafted .tgz filename (vim < 9.2.0479) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1655 · Opened May 18, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by GHSA-4473-94jm-w5x9 — cucumber filetype plugin Ruby code injection via crafted step patterns (vim < 9.2.0496) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1654 · Opened May 18, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by GHSA-crm5-rh6j-2c7c — netrw NetrwBookHistSave() code injection via crafted directory name (vim < 9.2.0495) Open

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 72/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1653 · Opened May 18, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by netrw command injection via crafted directory names in NetrwMaps() (vim < 9.2.0481) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1652 · Opened May 18, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by CVE-2026-43961 — netrw NetrwMarkFile() Vimscript injection via crafted filename (vim < 9.2.0480) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1651 · Opened May 18, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by CVE-2026-46483 — tar#Vimuntar() command injection via shellescape (vim < 9.2.0479) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1650 · Opened May 17, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by CVE-2026-45130 — spell file heap buffer overflow (vim < 9.2.0450) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1649 · Opened May 17, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by CVE-2026-44656 — :find completion backtick OS command injection (vim < 9.2.0435) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1648 · Opened May 17, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by CVE-2026-42307 — netrw OS command injection (vim < 9.2.0383) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1647 · Opened May 17, 2026
[Security] MacVim affected by CVE-2026-41411 — tag file command injection (vim < 9.2.0357) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1646 · Opened May 17, 2026
MacVim not loading plugins from my ~/.vim directory Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1641 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2026
:shell with guioptions+=! not showing prompt Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1640 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 13, 2026
Multiple CVEs — including CVE-2026-34714 (fixed upstream in Vim 9.2.0272) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1634 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 3, 2026
guifontwide fonts do not get larger/smaller when guifont does Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1632 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 4, 2026
Quicklook highlight isn't cleared for selected texts when followed by another quicklook Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1630 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 24, 2026
Change in Find dialog behavior with Mission Control spaces in macOS Tahoe 26.2 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1629 · Opened Jan 15, 2026
Regression issue: Getting "Send expression failed" using newer versions of MacVim Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1628 · Opened Jan 13, 2026
MacVim selects one letter more to the right when selecting by mouse Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1618 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 1, 2025
Gvimdiff window opens one or two columns smaller every time it is opened Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1602 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2025
Reconcile version #'ing system Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1582 · 16 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2025
`macaction terminate:` (also quit via Cmd-q/logout/reboot) ignores `set confirm` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1579 · Opened May 13, 2025
Context menu support for translate using macOS Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1575 · 15 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2025
Cursor disappears in terminal mode Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1574 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2025
Blocking echo messages on startup result in blank screen Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1573 · 11 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2025
Setting transparency to non-zero results in title bar being completely transparent Open

UI

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1564 · Opened Feb 21, 2025
Clipping of text Open

Bug Renderer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1551 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2025
Using dead keys acute and grave/backtick in normal mode doesn't work Open

Input

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1519 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2024
Get the current window's screen info Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1513 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 4, 2024
Epic: Support reproducible builds Open

Epic Infrastructure

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1506 · Opened Oct 22, 2024
Ability to change what happens when pasting with Cmd+v the editor while still being able to use Cmd+v to paste in dialogs Open

Input

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1505 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2024
Allow bringing window to top instead of opening a new editor on a file that is already being edited Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1504 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 20, 2024
Misaligned Glyphs in Berkeley Mono Open

Renderer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1502 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 25, 2024
Window doesn't open when launched from the Dock or Finder Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1501 · Opened Sep 17, 2024
Make Core Text Renderer Accessible in VoiceOver Open

Renderer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1491 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 19, 2024
Using Cmd-C multiple times unexpectedly changes editor contents Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1485 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 2, 2024
Tab default ordering / reordering bugs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1475 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2024
high cpu usage after update to MacVim r179 (Vim 9.1.0) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1474 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2024
After waking up computer from Sleep, Macvim will try to close Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1459 · 13 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2023
Use macOS cooperative app activation to activate app to foreground Open

14.0 Sonoma

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1456 · Opened Nov 1, 2023
mvim: '+' argument doesn't work with '--remote' and friends Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1445 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 17, 2023

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