PJM Hmm, lets not get too carried away with the "everything a Mac app should be" sort of claim. Pull a random task from the sky, something everyone would likely wish to change about Vim's default. Let's say: "change the default font". Everyone knows how to do that: you dial up the preferences for the application, find where the font description lives, change as desired, and away you go. Don't you? Oh... Well, aah, not exactly... In fact with Vim you really need to learn about initialization files, about how to write a prescription using Vim's style of parameters (is the font option one with an equals sign in it or not?), how to prescribe a given font on a mac in a way that vim understands, etc etc. All of which is achievable, but it's far from being what a Mac user would expect. Don't get me wrong: I love vim, and use it quite a lot (more from the command line than via MacVim). But I also use TextMate all the time, and there are really good reasons for doing so: it just integrates into Mac OS X a whole heap better than MacVim. Writing your own commands, throwing hooks into the operating system, and so forth is utterly straightforward for anyone with some scripting experience (perl/ruby/python... etc, take your pick). | 
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