Create macvim in Applications folder

Question

I ran brew install macvim, and I'm wondering if there's a way to access it outside of the terminal? I know I can create a link in my applications folder, but is there more native support for this? Or is my best bet just to download this guy https://code.google.com/p/macvim/ ?

Answer 1

MacVim is actually a GUI application first, that comes with a CLI executable that you can run in your shell.

You can find the MacVim.app bundle in /usr/local/Cellar/, where Homebrew puts all the programs you install with it.

It is also possible to launch the MacVim GUI with:

$ mvim -g filename

Installing MacVim with Homebrew makes sense if you already use Homebrew to install the UNIX programs that you use regularly but installing Homebrew just to get MacVim is a pointless waste of time. Downloading MacVim from the official source is a much better idea IMO: simpler, quicker…