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I'm finding it a little dificult to instal Vim on my mac, can anyone point out some good resources or a step by step.

thanks

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rincewind
I used macports and porticus and installed vim-app.
gaius
1) Use MacPorts 2) Send whatever error message you get to the package maintainer 3) Profit!
parenthesis
A console version of Vim is part of a standard OS X install, is it not?
mechanical_fish
Seems like it. I just typed "vim" at a Terminal prompt in Leopard and was greeted with VIM 7.0.234.

I certainly didn't install that myself -- I use emacs on my local machines, although I admit I've been struggling to learn enough vi to do editing on remote servers.

I guess it's theoretically possible that vim came along with Xcode or MacPorts, but I can't imagine what I might have installed that had vim as a dependency.

dlimeb
There is also http://code.google.com/p/macvim/, although it has to be built from source.
asp742
This is my favorite version of vim on OS X. It uses Cocoa and is fast. There's a pre-built .app in the tarball on that site and a script to launch macvim from the command line.