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…