I'm using macOS Catalina which has built in Vim 8.1. I'm also using iTerm with zsh and oh-my-zsh. I installed neovim for my personal use and when I setting it up, I accidentally enter source .zshrc in Command mode instead of source init.vim. From then, when I open neovim or built in vim, it does not source init.vim anymore and shows error message like below:
Error detected while processing VIMINIT:
E33: No previous substitute regular expression
Press ENTER or type command to continue
There is a line in my .zshrc that exports VIMINIT variable
export VIMINIT="~/.config/nvim/init.vim"
How can I undo this or is there any other way to reset vim to original setting? Thank you so much
I tried #Niloct solution, unset VIMINIT and vim/neovim is backed to normal. After that, I reopen the iTerm and it showed error message again. Therefore I removed the export line from .zshrc and the problem has been solved.
To load a clean neovim:
nvim -u NONE -U NONE -N -i NONE
Actually I have an alias for that
alias vinone='nvim -u NONE -U NONE -N -i NONE'
This way you can type vinone and use your default neovim
Before, my terminal command line looked something like:
~ myname$
But now for no reason it looks like
Name-MBP:~ myname$
And I can't commit things to svn. How can I fix this?
You have somehow switched to bash.
Type zsh to try.
If that works, change the setting in Terminal's preferences (General -> Shells open with: "Default login shell") (or /bin/zsh)
So when I'm using Vim in the mac osx terminal I accidentally enter the command cmd+k that clears my terminal because I'm used to the motion, this makes me have to exit vim and enter again. I want to know if theres a way to disable this.
For example this is me editing my .vimrc
Then I enter the command and my terminal looks like this:
Is there a way to disable this command when using Vim only? I want to continue using it when using the terminal outside Vim. Thanks
Instead of restarting vim use CTRL-L to redraw the screen.
If I use man command just in Terminal, it works well.
However, under tmux, it will print out No manual entry for any command. For example:
$man find
No manual entry for find
Any idea? Thanks in advance.
Found out that $MANPATH is different under tmux. It misses some paths like /usr/share/man.
Change $MANPATH under tmux will work.
Just compiled MacVim with homebrew. Here's what it looks like when I :sh and then type ls:
http://cloud.jtmkrueger.com/image/2N0S0T3k3l1J
As you can see, it's just character codes.
UPDATE
I run oh-my-zsh
Tried installing the plugin named here:
http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/ANSI-colors-td1219411.html
Didn't seem to help
ANOTHER UPDATE
Upon removing my zsh syntax highlighting plugin It seems to work ok. Is there a way to turn off zsh plugins when using oh-my-zsh only when it's a vim 'dumb terminal'?
When you do :sh in GVim or MacVim, you don't get a real terminal emulator.
It's "dumb" and there's no way to make it understand those escape sequences. You better get used to it or ask (with convincing arguments and a ready-made patch) on the vim-dev mailing list.
You might want to try the ConqueTerm plugin which does its best to interpret ANSI sequences, even inside MacVim.
Just for the reference, :h guioptions now support the following flag:
'!' External commands are executed in a terminal window. Without
this flag the MS-Windows GUI will open a console window to
execute the command. The Unix GUI will simulate a dumb
terminal to list the command output.
The terminal window will be positioned at the bottom, and grow
upwards as needed.
Set :set go+=!, run :sh, and be surprised :).
What you see is actually not just character codes, but your usual shell prompt which contains color codes. You can probably disable it by redefining PS1 or remove your modified definition in ~/.bashrc.
If you would like to use a color prompt on the command line, but not in MacVim you can fix this in ~/.bashrc by setting PS1 differently when inside vim (from here)
if [ $VIM ]; then
export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
fi
You could try the following, instead of ls, type command ls; it shouldn't show the escapes codes.
If it works you can simple create a new file in a folder in your path, say vls, with the following contents:
#!/bin/sh
command ls $#
after that chmod +x vls and again, if it is in your path, you should be able to use that from vim.