Is the FAQ stale or am I missing something? Which I find strange The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. Well, this is easy to miss. Why not include it inside the MacVim. Missing mvim from snapshot Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I have MacVim installed and I am trying to set it up as the editor for Git version control , but I can't run 'mvim' from the command line as it isn't recognised.
How do I setup mvim so I can run it from Terminal? There should be a script named mvim in the root of the. That will provide mvim, vim, vi, view, etc. This also removes the need to create any aliases and also changes your vi, vim, etc. This may confuse other applications, but Git seems to check the status of a temporary commit message file, which bypasses this limitation. Then when you invoke mvim it is now recognised but there is an annoying thing. It opens the visual MacVim window, not the one in terminal.
To do that, you have to invoke. To make sure every time you call mvim you don't have to remember to add the '-v' you can create an alias:. However, this alias will only persist for this session of the Terminal. To have this alias executed every time you open a Terminal window, you have to include it in your. If it's not, create it. When you install the MacVim port the MacVim. A good thing about going the MacPorts route is that you'll also be able to install git too sudo port install git-core and many many other ports.
Highly recommended. For Mac. You may even get the following warning if you brew linkapps :. Unfortunately brew linkapps cannot behave nicely with e. Spotlight using either aliases or symlinks and Homebrew formulae do not build "proper". Instead, please consider using brew cask and migrate formulae using. You should then be able to launch MacVim like you do any other macOS app, including mvim or open -a MacVim from a terminal session.
In a nutshell, brew handles software at the unix level, whereas brew cask extends the functionality of brew into the macOS domain for additional functionality such as handling the location of macOS app bundles.
Remember that brew is also implemented on Linux so it makes sense to have this division. There are other resources that explain the difference in more detail, such as What is the difference between brew and brew cask? Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. This breaks the symmetry though, I have to use terminal. Isn't there a way to use MacVim in stead of terminal to do all this?
I'm not talking about iTerm 2 etc, these apps don't cut is for me. I'm talking about true unix command line in MacVim.. You're confusing the terminal with the text editor, as other commenters have pointed out. Still, there are a number of ways to make the terminal more vim-like, or vim more terminal-like.
This will allow you to use vi-style keybindings at the command line hjkl movement, modal editing, etc. If you just want to be able to execute unix commands from within vim, prepend! For example :!
There are also plugins like Conque which allow you to run a shell from within Vim, which sounds like it may be exactly what you're after. If you are looking to navigate and open your files from within VIM, there are a couple things I suggest trying out. I have this bound to ;o in my install. At least now, in , this is built into MacVim. Sign up to join this community.
The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. I downloaded MacVim 7. Set a file to use MacVim to open it and it also worked using the "GetInfo" dialog box. The location of the MacVim app is not really important. This might not be true for some apps, but just for the sake of uniformity it probably is a good idea.
I had the same issue. I moved MacVim. For those with Yosemite and MacVim from homebrew not showing up in Spotlight, using an alias works.
What worked for me is to copy the whole MacVim. A sym link was insufficient, and I couldn't make an "alias" that worked. Unfortunately this wasn't being picked up by Spotlight. I was able to get spotlight working by creating a portion of the directory tree under MacVIM. Spotlight requires that the Info. So in the end, I did the following:. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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