MacVim r176.1 (prerelease)

Updated to Vim 9.0.1403

• Printing files in macOS 13 Ventura is now fixed.

This is a pre-release version of MacVim. To use the latest stable release, see https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases/latest

What's Changed

What's Changed

• Remove Sparkle 2's XPCServices symlink by @ychin in #1367
• Update gui_mac.txt headings by @dkav in #1363
• Don't throw Objective C exception when quitting MacVim by @ychin in #1371
• Fix Xcode 8 build breaks by @ychin in #1372
• Remove Sparkle.framework when configured with --disable-sparkle by @ychin in #1373
• Remove Homebrew no-auto-update env var from CI by @ychin in #1374
• Fix upstream merge CI failure with 'winaltkeys' by @ychin in #1376
• Clean up syntax / formatting / typos in MacVim docs by @ychin in #1375
• Add security policy file / documentation by @ychin in #1377
• Fix set fullscreen not working after upstream Vim merge by @ychin in #1379
• Fix MacVim localized intro text, and don't hide the :h version9 prompt by @ychin in #1381
• Fix 'gdefault' etc help tags being broken by @ychin in #1383
• Improve login shell docs by @ychin in #1386
• Fix CI not handling Xcode version correctly with packages by @ychin in #1387
• Fix qlstephen project warnings by @ychin in #1388
• Fix MacVim CI breakage in Test_mouse_shape_after_cancelling_gr by @ychin in #1392
• Fix misc MacVim project warnings in Xcode by @ychin in #1391
• Fix :hardcopy not working in macOS 13 Ventura by @ychin in #1390
• About MacVim show "pre-release" when running a pre-release build by @ychin in #1393

New Contributors

• @dkav made their first contribution in #1363

Full Changelog: release-176...prerelease-176.1

MacVim Release 176

Updated to Vim 9.0.1276

This is the first release in 2023! It took a little longer than I hoped to push this out, but it contains a decent amount of new features and bug / crash fixes, MacVim is now split into a normal binary for macOS 10.13+ and a "legacy" binary for macOS 10.9-10.12. You can also opt-in to a pre-release update channel for getting beta software faster in the future.

Note: r175 had a bug where tabs could crash MacVim, and was skipped in favor of this release (r176), which contains the fix (#1361).

Features

Dictionary lookup

You can now use Force Touch or Cmd-Ctrl-D to look up definitions of word under the cursor (or selected text in visual mode). This will also preview URLs, and support data types such as phone numbers and addresses. #1312 #1313

This feature can also be invoked programmatically from VimScript (see :h macvim-lookup). #1315

Tool bar / Touch Bar / menu icons

You can now use SF Symbols for Tool bar and Touch Bar icons, including using different symbol styles such as "palette" or "multicolor". Menu items can now also use the icon= syntax to specify icons as well. See :help macvim-toolbar-icon for details. #1329

The default tool bar also has updated icons to look similar to SF Symbols used by newer macOS versions. #1214 by @sfsam

Window management actions

There are new macaction's for managing the MacVim window. The new zoomLeft/zoomRight actions allow you to pin the window to the left/right of the screen, and there are also new actions for interacting with Stage Manager (requires macOS 13+). See :h macvim-actions for details. #1330

Pre-release updates / Sparkle 2

MacVim now supports pre-release software builds. It's sometimes hard for us to release frequent updates due to the desire to pick a stable upstream Vim version, needing to test the release on multiple OS versions, making sure there aren't half-complete or buggy features, and other reasons.

This new feature now allows us to push pre-release beta builds out in a more frequent fashion, which could be useful if there are particular features or fixes that you would like to try out before the next official release. Pre-release builds will be released depending on bug fixes and features instead of a fixed cadence. Do note that these pre-release builds may not be as well-validated and may have half-baked features.

If you are using the built-in auto-updater to update MacVim, you can turn this on by going to Advanced settings pane, and enable "Enable pre-release software updates".

This feature is only available for macOS 10.13 or above.

The auto-updater has also been updated from Sparkle 1.27.1 to 2.3.0 for 10.13+ builds. Legacy (10.9-10.12) builds are still using Sparkle 1.

See #1332.

New Vim features

New smoothscroll option allows you to scroll through a long wrapped line (using Ctrl-E or mouse wheel) without immediately jumping to the next line. (v9.0.0640)

splitscroll option has been renamed splitkeep, with more flexibility than before. (v9.0.0647)

Sound playback on macOS is now supported. You can use has('sound') to check. See :help sound for details. (v9.0.0694)

Terminals now support :confirm for :q, etc, which also means MacVim's Cmd-W will work properly for terminal windows. (v9.0.0710)

Virtual text had numerous bugs fixed.

General

Legacy build for 10.9 - 10.12

Per a previous announcement (#1271), the default MacVim binary will now require macOS 10.13 or above. Users of macOS 10.9 - 10.12 can use a separate "legacy" build which will still be supported. The legacy binary will still have the latest versions of Vim and be supported, but may not have all the latest features (e.g. pre-release builds).

If you are using the auto-updater (Sparkle) to update MacVim, it should "just work" and find the best version for you. If you are downloading MacVim from the website, there is also a link to download the legacy version marked for 10.9+ as well. If you download the normal binary marked for 10.13+ from the website, it won't work on these older macOS versions.

See #1331.

Fixes

CoreText Renderer clipping and rendering bugs

Unicode characters with multiple composing characters (e.g. "x⃗") will now render correctly. #1172

Texts (e.g. Tibetan, Zalgo texts) that are taller than the line height will no longer be clipped inappropriately. You can use a new setting MMRendererClipToRow to re-enable clipping if the tall texts are distracting. #995 / #1356

Tab crash

Fixed a crash when opening new tabs that seems to only occur in macOS 13 Ventura. #1333

Other bugs

• Fixed non-native full screen not working well with the notch on newer MacBook's when set to not show menu bar. You can also use MMNonNativeFullScreenSafeAreaBehavior to force MacVim to use the notch area as well if you don't mind some content being obscured. Note that the previous release also claimed it fixed this, but because the binary was built against an old macOS SDK (Big Sur), the fix did not work in the binary release. #1261
• Allow "Open untitled window: never" and "After last window closes: Quit MacVim" to be set together again. Added safeguards to make sure doing so won't immediately close the app. #1338
• Edit.Cut / Copy menu items will now be properly disabled when there isn't selected text. #1308
• Fixed potential :emenu crash when the menu is associated with an action in a non-valid mode. #1305
• Fixed bug where just bringing up the right-click (or the MacVim→Services) menu would somehow copy the selected texts to the system clipboard. #1300
• Fixed a Japanese input method bug where using left/right arrow to move to a different section of the input text would previously result in the candidate list not showing up at the correct position. #1312
• Fix non-CoreText renderer not handling text styles like strikethrough correctly (note: this renderer has been deprecated for a while and you should not use it). #1296
• This release uses an older sh/bash syntax file because the latest one in Vim has a bug. #1358

Misc

New settings:

• "No drop shadows" (Appearance). #1301
• "Treat Ctrl-click as right-click" (Input) (#1326). This was previously configurable via command-line, but now also possible in the settings pane under the new "Input" category.

"About MacVim" now reports the version number in a clearer way with clearly specified release number vs Vim version.

Known Issues

Printing

Printing using File→Print or :hardcopy is currently not working under macOS 13 Ventura due to its removal of PostScript support in the Preview app. This will be fixed in a later release. See the issue for workarounds. #1347

Scripting

• Scripting languages versions:
  • Perl is now built against 5.30, up from 5.18.
  • Ruby is now built against 3.2, up from 3.1.

Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above. (10.9 - 10.12 requires downloading a separate legacy build)

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.30
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.10
• Ruby 3.2

MacVim Release 175

⚠️ NOTE ⚠️: This release has a bug where tabs could still crash MacVim. It has been replaced by r176 instead, which does contain the fix.

Original release notes

Updated to Vim 9.0.1276

Features

Dictionary lookup

You can now use Force Touch or Cmd-Ctrl-D to look up definitions of word under the cursor (or selected text in visual mode). This will also preview URLs, and support data types such as phone numbers and addresses. #1312 #1313

This feature can also be invoked programmatically from VimScript (see :h macvim-lookup). #1315

Tool bar / Touch Bar / menu icons

You can now use SF Symbols for Tool bar and Touch Bar icons, including using different symbol styles such as "palette" or "multicolor". Menu items can now also use the icon= syntax to specify icons as well. See :help macvim-toolbar-icon for details. #1329

The default tool bar also has updated icons to look similar to SF Symbols used by newer macOS versions. #1214 by @sfsam

Window management actions

There are new macaction's for managing the MacVim window. The new zoomLeft/zoomRight actions allow you to pin the window to the left/right of the screen, and there are also new actions for interacting with Stage Manager (requires macOS 13+). See :h macvim-actions for details. #1330

Pre-release updates / Sparkle 2

MacVim now supports pre-release software builds. It's sometimes hard for us to release frequent updates due to the desire to pick a stable upstream Vim version, needing to test the release on multiple OS versions, making sure there aren't half-complete or buggy features, and other reasons.

This new feature now allows us to push pre-release beta builds out in a more frequent fashion, which could be useful if there are particular features or fixes that you would like to try out before the next official release. Pre-release builds will be released depending on bug fixes and features instead of a fixed cadence. Do note that these pre-release builds may not be as well-validated and may have half-baked features.

If you are using the built-in auto-updater to update MacVim, you can turn this on by going to Advanced settings pane, and enable "Enable pre-release software updates".

This feature is only available for macOS 10.13 or above.

The auto-updater has also been updated from Sparkle 1.27.1 to 2.3.0 for 10.13+ builds. Legacy (10.9-10.12) builds are still using Sparkle 1.

See #1332.

New Vim features

New smoothscroll option allows you to scroll through a long wrapped line (using Ctrl-E or mouse wheel) without immediately jumping to the next line. (v9.0.0640)

splitscroll option has been renamed splitkeep, with more flexibility than before. (v9.0.0647)

Sound playback on macOS is now supported. You can use has('sound') to check. See help sound for details. (v9.0.0694)

Terminals now support :confirm for :q, etc, which also means MacVim's Cmd-W will work properly for terminal windows. (v9.0.0710)

Virtual text had numerous bugs fixed.

General

Legacy build for 10.9 - 10.12

Per a previous announcement (#1271), the default MacVim binary will now require macOS 10.13 or above. Users of macOS 10.9 - 10.12 can use a separate "legacy" build which will still be supported. The legacy binary will still have the latest versions of Vim and be supported, but may not have all the latest features (e.g. pre-release builds).

If you are using the auto-updater (Sparkle) to update MacVim, it should "just work" and find the best version for you. If you are downloading MacVim from the website, there is also a link to download the legacy version marked for 10.9+ as well. If you download the normal binary marked for 10.13+ from the website, it won't work on these older macOS versions.

See #1331.

Fixes

CoreText Renderer clipping and rendering bugs

Unicode characters with multiple composing characters (e.g. "x⃗") will now render correctly. #1172

Texts (e.g. Tibetan, Zalgo texts) that are taller than the line height will no longer be clipped inappropriately. You can use a new setting MMRendererClipToRow to re-enable clipping if the tall texts are distracting. #995 / #1356

Tab crash

Fixed a crash when opening new tabs that seems to only occur in macOS 13 Ventura. #1333

Other bugs

• Fixed non-native full screen not working well with the notch on newer MacBook's when set to not show menu bar. You can also use MMNonNativeFullScreenSafeAreaBehavior to force MacVim to use the notch area as well if you don't mind some content being obscured. Note that the previous release also claimed it fixed this, but because the binary was built against an old macOS SDK (Big Sur), the fix did not work in the binary release. #1261
• Allow "Open untitled window: never" and "After last window closes: Quit MacVim" to be set together again. Added safeguards to make sure doing so won't immediately close the app. #1338
• Edit.Cut / Copy menu items will now be properly disabled when there isn't selected text. #1308
• Fixed potential :emenu crash when the menu is associated with an action in a non-valid mode. #1305
• Fixed bug where just bringing up the right-click (or the MacVim→Services) menu would somehow copy the selected texts to the system clipboard. #1300
• Fixed a Japanese input method bug where using left/right arrow to move to a different section of the input text would previously result in the candidate list not showing up at the correct position. #1312
• Fix non-CoreText renderer not handling text styles like strikethrough correctly (note: this renderer has been deprecated for a while and you should not use it). #1296
• This release uses an older sh/bash syntax file because the latest one in Vim has a bug. #1358

Misc

New settings:

• "No drop shadows" (Appearance). #1301
• "Treat Ctrl-click as right-click" (Input) (#1326). This was previously configurable via command-line, but now also possible in the settings pane under the new "Input" category.

"About MacVim" now reports the version number in a clearer way with clearly specified release number vs Vim version.

Known Issues

Printing

Printing using File→Print or :hardcopy is currently not working under macOS 13 Ventura due to its removal of PostScript support in the Preview app. This will be fixed in a later release. See the issue for workarounds. #1347

Scripting

• Scripting languages versions:
  • Perl is now built against 5.30, up from 5.18.
  • Ruby is now built against 3.2, up from 3.1.

Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above. (10.9 - 10.12 requires downloading a separate legacy build)

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.30
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.10
• Ruby 3.2

MacVim Release 174

Updated to Vim 9.0.472.

Announcements

Sponsors

MacVim now allows you to sponsor the team! Any amount would be appreciated and it is of course optional. See the announcement (#1271) for more details.

Supporting old versions of macOS (10.12 or below)

Currently, macOS supports macOS 10.9 or above. However, this is getting harder to do so as time goes on (e.g. the latest Xcode doesn't support building for it). In the near future, MacVim will mostly target 10.13 (High Sierra) or above, with 10.9 - 10.12 as legacy support. Visit this discussion (#1288) if you would be affected and would like to know more.

Features

Resizing MacVim new options

You can now smoothly drag and resize MacVim without having it constrained to fixed multiples of the text size, by setting the "Smoothly resizes window" under General preference pane. This also allows MacVim to behave better when used with third-party tools (e.g. BetterSnapTool) to snap it to one side of the screen. #1276

The command line can now be pinned to the bottom of the window with a setting (under Appearance preference pane). This makes it look better aligned when using smooth resizing, or in other situations where the window size is not a direct multiples of Vim's text size (e.g. full screen or guioption+=k). #1280

Both features in action:

New supported text styles

Vim highlight groups strikethrough, underdouble, underdotted, underdashed are now supported. #1287

New Vim features

Virtual text allows you to place custom texts to be displayed inline for diagnostic information and more (e.g. build errors, CSS color preview). See :help virtual-text for more information.

The default color schemes (e.g. desert) are now fixed to look correct again.

Misc options and commands:

• set nosplitscroll lets you preserve the windows' scroll positions when splitting. (v9.0.0445)
• :defer allows you to clean up in a function. (v9.0.0370)
• :echowindow allows you to echo a message to a floating popup message window instead of to the command line. (v9.0.0321)

Fixes

• Fixed non-native full screen not working well with the notch on newer MacBook's when set to not show menu bar. You can also use MMNonNativeFullScreenSafeAreaBehavior to force MacVim to use the notch area as well if you don't mind some content being obscured. #1261
• Fixed bad interaction when two settings ("Open untitled window: never" and "After last window closes: Quit MacVim") are set together. #1257
• Fixed the bundled Vim tutor not working when launching from the Help menu #1265.
• Fix crashing on launch under macOS 10.9. #1212
• Fixed potential crash when switching appearance mode in MacVim preferences. #1270
• Korean localized menus no longer throw a syntax error on launch. #1278
• did_install_default_menus should work in MacVim now. #1267

General

Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 1.27.1 (#1284), and we no longer use DSA keys for signing updates (#1285) as we are using EdDSA already.

Scripting

• Scripting languages versions:
  • Python is now built against 3.10, up from 3.9.

Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above.

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.18
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.10
• Ruby 3.1

MacVim Release 173

Updated to Vim 9.0.0065.

MacVim is now updated to Vim 9!

I just want to apologize for the infrequent update cadence for MacVim over the last year and a half. I have not had much time to work on MacVim, which made catching up harder, leading to a bad feedback loop. I would like to move back to a more regular release cadence to keep MacVim more updated relative to Vim, and to be able to start working on macOS 12/13 integrations as well as fixing outstanding bugs and merging the various pull requests that have been waiting to be merged for a while. Please don't hesitate to poke on GitHub if MacVim starts falling behind again.

General

• MacVim now supports the +sodium feature, which allows you to use the newer "xchacha20" encryption method for encryption. See :help cryptmethod. #1225

Misc

• Scripting languages versions:
  • Ruby is now built against 3.1, up from 3.0.

Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above.

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.18
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.9
• Ruby 3.1

MacVim Release 172

Updated to Vim 8.2.3455.

Apologies for the late update, as I have not had much time to work on MacVim. This update is primarily to catch up to latest Vim. Future MacVim releases in near future will go back to more bug fixes / features, and addressing potential issues caused by macOS 12.

Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above.

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.18
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.9
• Ruby 3.0

MacVim Snapshot 171

Updated to Vim 8.2.2681.

This is a small update mostly containing a fix to a rendering bug in Core Text renderer.

Fixes

• Fixed a rendering issue where MacVim would stop drawing text when the computer is running low on memory. Previously the user would have to restart MacVim in order to get the rendering back. #1164

Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above.

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.18
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.9
• Ruby 3.0

MacVim Snapshot 170

Updated to Vim 8.2.2576.

This was a somewhat delayed release. My apologies! Next few releases should be more frequent.

Features

Apple Silicon Support

MacVim's binary release now fully supports Apple Silicon! If you have an M1 Mac you should notice MacVim being more snappy and smoother. #1150

If you would like to (e.g. if you only installed Python 3 in Rosetta and use plugins that use Python), you could run MacVim under Rosetta. You could use :version while in MacVim to tell whether you are running in Rosetta / Intel or Apple Silicon by seeing whether it says x86_64 or arm64. (Vim 8.2.2174)

If you rely on Python/Ruby/Lua integration, note that previously MacVim by default searches the /usr/local/ path for installed language runtimes. With this release, MacVim will still search those folders under Intel / x86-64 builds, but under Apple Silicon / M1, MacVim will search under /opt/homebrew/ instead, which is the default folder for Homebrew under Apple Silicon. If you don't use Homebrew, or installed language runtimes under other folders, you would need to set python3dll/luadll/rubydll in your vimrc.

Full Screen Fixes and Improvements

Removed the fade-to-black animation when transition to full screen, as they were distracting and looked jarring. For non-native full screen, you could set MMFullScreenFadeTime to a non-zero value to still get the animation back. #1171

Non-native full screen:

• Non-native full screen now has an option to show menu bar when it's active (under Appearance preference pane). #1170
• Fixed non-native full screen to properly hide the menu / dock when used on a secondary screen. Also, fixed misc issues with non-native full screen not drawing at the right offset. #7 #1155 #1170
• Fixed non-native full screen's fuopt setting. It now works again. This feature allows you to limit only expand horizontally or vertically when using non-native full screen to help focus on the content, see :help fuopt. #509

Fixed small bug in Touch Bar's full screen button sometimes not being updated correctly. #1171

Known Issues

Text invisible after plugging in monitor or waking from sleep

There is currently a known issue in rendering where after plugging/unplugging an external monitor, or waking from sleep when connected to a monitor, there is a small chance MacVim will stop drawing text. If you see that, please report that to #1164. This release contains some additional logging to help dignose the issue and we are still looking to root cause it.

General

• Added an option to ignore font's line height. r168 introduced a new renderer which changed the behavior for how font's line height works – instead of ignoring it, the new renderer respects the line height of the font. This new setting allows MacVim to behave in the old way, since some fonts have large line height that the user may not want to use. #1152

Fixes

• Fixed balloon APIs (balloon_show() / balloon_gettext()) so plugins relying on them should now work. #902 #1064

Misc

• Scripting languages versions:
  • Ruby is now built against 3.0, up from 2.7.

Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above.

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.18
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.9
• Ruby 3.0

MacVim Snapshot 169

Updated to Vim 8.2.2164.

This release (r169) is a minor update to fix the issue that r168 would
not launch on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or below. #1138

Release notes for r168

Note: This release doesn't natively support Apple Silicon / M1 yet, but does work under Rosetta. See below.

Features

Big Sur / macOS 11

• MacVim now has an updated app icon (#1054), and preference pane / toolbars have been updated to match Big Sur's interface guidelines. (#1128)
• Fixed Touch Bar warnings when launching MacVim from the terminal. #1114
• SF Symbol characters will show up properly as double-width as most of these icons would take up more than one column. Note that these characters are specific to macOS and would not work in other platforms. #1129

Renderer / scrolling performance improvements

The Core Text renderer has been rewritten and is now much faster! Scrolling should not stutter and lag like before and generally it should feel a lot smoother now. Thanks to Sidney San Martín (@s4y) for the contribution. #858

With this change, the non-Core-Text renderer is now considered deprecated. The old renderer is accessible either through the Preference Pane (under Advanced) or by setting the defaults "MMRenderer" to 0. It works for now, but it will be removed in a future update as it has known bugs.

Menu Localization

Menus are now localized, see :h langmenu for how Vim menu localization works. You can use set langmenu=none to turn it off if you would like. #1099

There still exists a few menu items that are not localized, and the general MacVim GUI is not localized as well. If you would like to help, please use #1102 to coordinate with MacVim dev team.

Getting help / Help menu

• Help menu's search bar now searches Vim documentation as well! See #1095.

  

• Vimtutor is now bundled with MacVim, and you can access vimtutor from the Help menu (#1096).

• There is also a link to the latest release notes as well (#1131).

General

Apple Silicon

This release does not contain a native universal app for Apple Silicon / M1 Macs yet. The release binary will still work under Rosetta, which should provide enough performance, but if you use Python/etc plugins, you need to make sure you have x86 versions of Python/etc installed (which is still the default for Homebrew as of this release).

MacVim is buildable under Apple Silicon, so if you need a native binary, you could build it yourself by downloading the source from the Github repository. See #1136 for progress on releasing a universal app for Apple Silicon.

Github Discusisons

MacVim has enabled the Github Discussions feature, which serves as a good spot for general discussions and questions. See #1130 and check it out!

Fixes

• Launching MacVim from the Dock with locales that use "," for decimal separators now works correctly. #11 (Vim 8.2.1738)
• WinBar menus (which are used by plugins like vimspector) now work properly and don't create dummy menu items. #918
• Using :browse tabnew no longer crashes MacVim in terminal mode. #1107 (Vim 8.2.1842)

Misc

• Scripting languages versions:
  • Python is now built against 3.9, up from 3.8.
  • Lua is now built against 5.4, up from 5.3.

Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above.

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.18
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.9
• Ruby 2.7

MacVim Snapshot 168

⚠️ NOTE ⚠️: This release seems to not run on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or below. Download r166 instead if you have that. See #1138. A fix was released under r169.

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Updated to Vim 8.2.2127.

Note: This release doesn't natively support Apple Silicon / M1 yet, but does work under Rosetta. See below.

Features

Big Sur / macOS 11

• MacVim now has an updated app icon (#1054), and preference pane / toolbars have been updated to match Big Sur's interface guidelines. (#1128)
• Fixed Touch Bar warnings when launching MacVim from the terminal. #1114
• SF Symbol characters will show up properly as double-width as most of these icons would take up more than one column. Note that these characters are specific to macOS and would not work in other platforms. #1129

Renderer / scrolling performance improvements

The Core Text renderer has been rewritten and is now much faster! Scrolling should not stutter and lag like before and generally it should feel a lot smoother now. Thanks to Sidney San Martín (@s4y) for the contribution. #858

With this change, the non-Core-Text renderer is now considered deprecated. The old renderer is accessible either through the Preference Pane (under Advanced) or by setting the defaults "MMRenderer" to 0. It works for now, but it will be removed in a future update as it has known bugs.

Menu Localization

Menus are now localized, see :h langmenu for how Vim menu localization works. You can use set langmenu=none to turn it off if you would like. #1099

There still exists a few menu items that are not localized, and the general MacVim GUI is not localized as well. If you would like to help, please use #1102 to coordinate with MacVim dev team.

Getting help / Help menu

• Help menu's search bar now searches Vim documentation as well! See #1095.

  

• Vimtutor is now bundled with MacVim, and you can access vimtutor from the Help menu (#1096).

• There is also a link to the latest release notes as well (#1131).

General

Apple Silicon

This release does not contain a native universal app for Apple Silicon / M1 Macs yet. The release binary will still work under Rosetta, which should provide enough performance, but if you use Python/etc plugins, you need to make sure you have x86 versions of Python/etc installed (which is still the default for Homebrew as of this release).

MacVim is buildable under Apple Silicon, so if you need a native binary, you could build it yourself by downloading the source from the Github repository. See #1136 for progress on releasing a universal app for Apple Silicon.

Github Discusisons

MacVim has enabled the Github Discussions feature, which serves as a good spot for general discussions and questions. See #1130 and check it out!

Fixes

• Launching MacVim from the Dock with locales that use "," for decimal separators now works correctly. #11 (Vim 8.2.1738)
• WinBar menus (which are used by plugins like vimspector) now work properly and don't create dummy menu items. #918
• Using :browse tabnew no longer crashes MacVim in terminal mode. #1107 (Vim 8.2.1842)

Misc

• Scripting languages versions:
  • Python is now built against 3.9, up from 3.8.
  • Lua is now built against 5.4, up from 5.3.

Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above.

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.18
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.9
• Ruby 2.7