Friday, September 12, 2014

Using Vi (XVim) in XCode 5 & 6


XVim is great for us Vi users that also use XCode, but the installation instructions on GitHub are (as of the time of writing) useless.

Here is the best way to install XVim, as email to me from the author himself:
  • Install git if you haven't already
  • Clone XVim: git clone https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim
  • Go to the dir: cd XVim
  • Change to develop branch: git checkout develop
  • Open the project file XVim.xcodeproj
  • Build
  • Restart XCode (make sure the XCode process is completely restarted)
Finally, there seems to be some misconceptions out there about Vi: it's just a text editor. It is not an IDE.