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The best way to make MacVim's vim (console, not mvim) the default instead of Mac OS X's vim?

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Mar 15, 202663209 views
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I installed MacVim using homebrew. ( ). If I call from , it opens the GUI MacVim. I would like to make call the MacVim's Vim ( ) instead of the system's ( ) vim. Which is the best way to do it? I know I can do an but I don't know if it's the best approach... EDIT: Guys, thank for all your answers, but indeed, since I'm already using , using the is the elegant way to accomplish what I need.

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brew install macvim

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I believe this is what you're looking for: This will create vim, vimdiff, etc. symlinks to mvim in /usr/local/bin/vim, and as long as /usr/local/bin is before /usr/bin in your PATH, you'll get the results you're looking for. Earlier versions of brew used the switch which was deprecated.

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