Saturday, 25 April 2009

MacVim and XCode

XCode no longer automatically launches MacVim to edit my files. However, this actually forced me to find what I think is a better solution. :)

All you need to do is open-up MacVim and XCode; and drag any files you want to edit from the XCode project window file list, on to MacVim. The file you drag-across opens automatically in a new tab for editing under MacVim. Really easy!

Even more easily: if you are editing a file in XCode, and don't want the hassle of first searching for it in the project file list in order to drag it to XCode; simply right-click on the XCode editor window, select the option to Reveal in Finder, and then right-click on the file in the Finder window and select the option to edit with Vim.app ...

2 comments:

IMISSMYJUNO said...

Or you could just assign MacVim as the editor in the Xcode's file associations.

Or use :cd [project dir]|:e [filename].

Wee!

Pete Cole said...

The problem is that XCode simply ended-up forgetting about the file association. :)

Never mind, at least I can use XCode and MacVim together really well now. Lets hear it for Vim. :)