Getting Vim for the Macintosh Environment
Mac OS X comes with Vim 6.2 installed, but not with any GUI version. Users can download .tar.bz2 files to compile versions 6.4 and 7.1 with a GUI.
When downloading the source, however, the maintainer recommends downloading from CVS (a source control system) to ensure up-to-date source code along with the most recent patches. This isn’t difficult, but the idea of downloading via command line may seem a bit foreign to newer users.
Once files are downloaded, the procedure for installation is very similar to the Unix compilation and installation procedure described earlier in the section Getting Vim for Unix and GNU/Linux.
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