Installing

Installing MacVim

Main Options

1. Recommended: Download official binary release directly. MacVim will automatically check for updates and prompt for installation.
   1. You can also use Homebrew Cask which does the same thing of downloading the official binary release for you, by doing brew install --cask macvim.
2. Use Homebrew. Download it and do brew install macvim in a terminal. If you do this, MacVim will not automatically check for updates, and the updating is handled by Homebrew instead.

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).

  • 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')

  • 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.