How to open a new terminal window when using VIM
You could write a little script like this :

#!/bin/sh
osascript &lt;&lt;END
tell app "Terminal" to do script "vim"
END


Name this script v and make it executable :

chmod +x v


Then when you're in terminal, just execute the v script and it will open a new terminal window and run vim.

Alternatively, if you want to open a text file as part of this:

#!/usr/bin/osascript
on run argv
  tell app "Terminal" to do script "vim " &amp; item 1 of argv
end run


Then just run v text.txt  and it will open a new terminal window, open vim, and open the text file called text.txt.   If text.txt doesn't exist, as usual, vim will create it in the buffer.