vim

Install command:
brew install vim

Vi 'workalike' with many additional features

https://www.vim.org/

License: Vim

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/vim.json

Formula code: vim.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 9.2.1150
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

libsodium 1.0.22 NaCl networking and cryptography library
ncurses 6.6 Text-based UI library
gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library
lua 5.5.1 Powerful, lightweight programming language
python@3.14 3.14.8 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
ruby 4.0.7 Powerful, clean, object-oriented scripting language

Uses from macOS: perl (build, test)

Conflicts with: ex-vi (because vim and ex-vi both install bin/ex and bin/view), macvim (because vim and macvim both install vi* binaries), vim-classic (because vim and vim-classic both install vi* binaries)

Binaries: ex, rview, rvim, vi, view, vim, vimdiff, vimtutor, xxd

Additional features can be enabled by installing: lua, python@3.14, ruby

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