Installing

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Yee Cheng Chin edited this page Jan 30, 2025 · 9 revisions

Installing MacVim

Main Options

Using binary release is recommended. MacVim will automatically check for updates and prompt for installation.
Use Homebrew. Download it and do brew install macvim in a terminal.

Other methods

Build yourself: See Building for how to build MacVim yourself.
Other package managers: See for other package managers that could be used to install MacVim.
Nightly builds: If you would like a build of the latest development version, visit , select the newest run, and download MacVim.dmg from it (you need to be logged in to GitHub).
- Note: This version of MacVim is not signed/notarized and is intended for testing only. You will have to manually go to macOS Security settings and allow it to be run, or use the terminal command xattr -d com.apple.quarantine MacVim.app. Only do this if you are comfortable with in-development builds and want to try out the latest work-in-progress features and fixes.
- You can also do the same in the terminal by using the GitHub command-line tool gh:
```
gh run download \
    -R macvim-dev/macvim -n MacVim.dmg \
    $(gh run list -R macvim-dev/macvim -w ci-macvim.yaml -L 1 -e push -b master -s success --json databaseId -q '.[0].databaseId')
```