International menus (how to change language)

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hello,

On windows, international menus work automatically.

How can I enable that menu on Mac? I have tried to set
language "sl_SI"
in .vimrc or to put Slovenian on the top of the list (as primary
language) in "international" settings in System Preferences, but it
doesn't help at all.

The file that should be loaded is located under
MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/lang/menu_sl_si.utf-8.vim

I would be grateful for any hints,
Mojca

[Nico Weber]

Hi,

> On windows, international menus work automatically.
>
> How can I enable that menu on Mac? I have tried to set
> language "sl_SI"
> in .vimrc or to put Slovenian on the top of the list (as primary
> language) in "international" settings in System Preferences, but it
> doesn't help at all.
>
> The file that should be loaded is located under
> MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/lang/menu_sl_si.utf-8.vim

this doesn't work yet. MacVim uses a different system for the some
menus to support displaying hotkeys like ⌘S in the menus and for
making the menus blink if you hit this shortcut. This is only
available in english for now. You can do `:e $VIM/gvimrc` to take a
look at how the existing menu works.

Nico

[Mojca Miklavec]

OK, I see it now. Actually, on windows, one also has CTRL-C, CTRL-V
etc. to copy-paste, but the menus only show linux shortcuts. I hope
that there will be a way to use the existing translations + mac
shortcuts, but maybe this requires a redesign of low-level vim syntak
for translations?

Thanks for the hint,
Mojca

(I like the cocoa port of vim a lot - I almost abandoned using gvim on
mac because of the unfriendly user interface)