Improving Vim’s Mac integration

Update: our first patch is now available!

Vim is a great editor and OS X a lovely operating system, but unfortunately, they do not go really well together.  No wonder requests for better OS X integration are at the top of the requested features list.

But so far the Mac Vim community doesn’t seem to have the manpower to get cranking on these issues. Luckily there’s Jjgod Jiang working on a Summer Of Code project to build a Cocoa GUI for vim.

As avid Vim users we’d like to contribute something as well. So we took the week off and started hacking (with just a grain of C knowlegde and no prior Mac API experience) Vim to implement the ODB Editor Suite which will make it possible to use Vim from a whole bunch of FTP applications. We’re making progress and hope to ‘release’ a first version patch soon.

If time allows we’ll also try to develop a simple ‘Edit in Vim’ button that can be used from text widgets in any application.