How can I open vim in a seperate window instead of in the terminal?

Question

I installed vim via homebrew and have been using it in the terminal. However, it would be a lot more convenient for me if I could use vim like a GUI application (that means, text editing in another window and not inside the terminal window)

How can I achieve that? I know that there is a GUI version of vim but since I installed it via homebrew it wouldn't be a good idea to install the that one as well.

Is it possible to create some kind of alias that starts the vim gui version?

Answer 1

You can install MacVim, either with homebrew (with this formula) or simply by downloading an official build.