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

small improvement of "open latest" Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1433 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2023
Remove titlebar but keep rounded corners Open

UI

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1422 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2023
Slow buffer updates with Undotree plugin Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1420 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 12, 2023
Add an option so that opening a file from macOS’s "external editor" mechanism does not bring macvim to foreground Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1408 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2023
How do I debug MacVim crashing? Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1407 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2023
Configure mvim as cli tool via the settings Open

Feature Request

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1404 · 3 comments · Opened May 26, 2023
Feature Request: detect and reuse MacVim instance to open file by mvim:// url Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1402 · 7 comments · Opened May 10, 2023
Window focus follows mouse Open

Feature Request

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1348 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 6, 2022
Allow modifying Cmd with mouse clicks for <D-LeftMouse> Open

Input

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1325 · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 28, 2022
Support App Intents and app shortcuts Open

13.0 Ventura Feature Request System Integration

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1322 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 25, 2022
Add a feature to map left Option `⌥` key to Meta Open

Input

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1321 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2022
Files opened through `:e` don't appear in macOS recents views Open

Feature Request

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1320 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 19, 2022
MacVim incerts dot on a double space Open

Input

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1318 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 18, 2022
Epic: Support dictionary/data lookup in MacVim Open

Epic

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1311 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 11, 2022
MacVim defaults clean up and modernization Open

Defaults Change

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1277 · 14 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 11, 2022
Implement native color picker support Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1272 · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 12, 2022
Applescript `document` method not recognized Open

Feature Request System Integration

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1266 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2022
Implement Metal renderer for MacVim Open

Investigation Renderer

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 22/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1262 · 6 reactions · Opened Aug 4, 2022
GUI keyboard repeat rate suffers with many long lines Open

Input

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1259 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2022
New window created from fullscreen doesn't get focus Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1244 · 7 comments · Opened May 27, 2022
Cursor position on insert Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1241 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 29, 2022
Include a script to install macvim as system/user level vim commands Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1226 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 3, 2022
shift-space produces escape sequence in terminal Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1224 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2021
http://download.eclipse.org/jdtls/snapshots/jdt-language-server-0.68.0-202101202016.tar.gz doesn't exist and breaks install on Mac Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1223 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 15, 2021
Always alert ssh username Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1222 · Opened Oct 29, 2021
What exactly pressing <F13> sends? Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1220 · Opened Oct 20, 2021
multiple versions of vim exist in my system, but cannot be uninstalled. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1219 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 19, 2021
saving causes tab gui mouse label to flash Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1218 · Opened Oct 17, 2021
buffer renamed "expand(" on save Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1216 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 11, 2021
Terminal mode buffers do not implement Xterm control sequences to change cursor shape correctly Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1215 · Opened Oct 10, 2021
Consider using brew install --cask in FAQ Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1209 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 21, 2021
MacVim hangs for minutes with hundreds of threads Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1204 · 25 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2021
VIM crashes after executing xelatex and colorscheme Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1202 · 11 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2021
dyld: Library not loaded Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1197 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 26, 2021
CLI tools don't preserve v:progname, v:progpath Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1192 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2021
MacVim shows list of recent files in right-click Dock Menu Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1189 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2021
Setting `set macthinstrokes` doesn't have any effect Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1188 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2021
macvim-snapshot-171 won't compile on macOS 11.2.3 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1184 · 12 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2021
Move from manual reference counting to ARC Open

Deprecated Technology

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1182 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 30, 2021
Move MacVim when the titlebar option is Hidden? Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1181 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 29, 2021
FZF/bat preview pane is not loading the correct color scheme Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1177 · Opened Mar 23, 2021
Gui file explorer feature? Open

Feature Request

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1176 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 20, 2021
UTI registrations are wrong Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

macvim-dev/macvim#1169 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2021
can not load /usr/local/opt/ruby/lib/libruby.dylib Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1163 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 11, 2021
CMD+ , to open .vimrc option Open

Feature Request

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1162 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 10, 2021
MacVim opens from Terminal (mvim) but does not render interface from Finder Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1159 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 31, 2020
Existing MacVim GUI window closes when opening files (seems random) Open

Crash

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1158 · 10 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2020
Investigate moving away from DO (Distributed Object) as IPC mechanism Open

Deprecated Technology Investigation IPC

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1157 · 9 comments · Opened Dec 29, 2020
Newly created gvim window not focused, existing gvim window is focused instead Open

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1156 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 28, 2020
Remove Carbon dependencies Open

Deprecated Technology

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

macvim-dev/macvim#1154 · Opened Dec 27, 2020

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