I feel like an idiot asking this because I have it working on my iMac at work but can't get it working on my Air.
I have installed the latest version but can only get it to run in a terminal window, not the GUI which I prefer.
Google has plenty of "how to run MacVim in terminal" results but I'm not finding how to do it the other way round and can't remember what I did on the work machine.
If you can get to it in the terminal:
:h mvim
If you are able to double-click the MacVim.app Application Bundle and launch as per a normal Mac Application, but you are not able to run
mvim
in a terminal, it seems like mvim may not be in your $PATH. However, if you are not able to open the MacVim.app at all, then it sounds like a bad compile.
mvim -g should open a GUI window, if that's possible. (It might not be if something is wonky with your bootstrap namespaces, which is where reattach-to-user-namespace comes in handy.)
mvim decides whether or not to call vim with -g or not based on whether there's a non-empty SSH_CONNECTION environment variable. If that variable has content, then it assumes you're ssh'd into a server, and the GUI window wouldn't do you any good, so it doesn't provide the -g argument.
You can preemptively pass -g yourself, and then mvim's antics won't matter.
I folowed your guide, but ran into a problem in vi, after installation the statusbar was only visible in the help window of macvim.
I found a solution in the official documentation;
https://powerline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/troubleshooting.html#vim-issues
I had to add the following to my .vimrc
set laststatus=2
Related
I recently downloaded ncurses from here and have compiled it using ./configure and make
As it is recommended in the README, I compiled the example programs that come bundled with the package. The programs compiled without any issue, but every time I run the programs I get the following errors:
Terminal type "xterm-256color"
terminals database is inaccessible
Changing the terminal's type using TERM=xterm and export TERM don't seem to solve this issue, and I'm just stuck. Will ncurses work if I included them in my C/C++ programs, or should I make sure the examples work?
Thanks in advance
Probably you did not install the terminal database, or did not tell the programs where to find it.
OSX comes with ncurses 5.7 (old, but not the problem here), with the terminal database in /usr/share/terminfo. However by default the configure script assumes you want to install in /usr/local. You can tell the programs where there's a terminal database by setting the TERMINFO environment variable, or (better), setting TERMINFO_DIRS to list both locations (with the newer one first of course).
For a start, something like
export TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo
should be enough to make the examples run.
Further reading:
TERMINFO
TERMINFO_DIRS
I have Mac Pro, with OS X 10.9.4 (can't upgrade to Yosemite yet), and I'm trying to build vim7.4 with gui-support, or get any kind of gui-support. My current vim is version 7.3, I'm guessing, that's the default vim that ships with macs. I have the Terminal.app and iTerm2.app, my vim rc has the default
set term=xterm-256colors
or what have you.
What I have so far:
macvim
The colors look great, basically it's the same setup I had on my ubuntu system, but it's really annoying that it opens a new window. Is there a way to get it to open within my terminal? (not launch it from the terminal, open inside of it)
As I've said I have the regular vim7.3
And while I can use color-schemes, they look like garbage compared to my ubuntu system. I suppose this must be due to gui-support option? I tried, CSApprox but that gives me a weird error.
So I decided to simply build vim 7.4 and enable gui support, but I get random errors.
My basic config make looks like:
./configure --enable-gui=yes
make
At which point it complains about missing header file etc. , I figured this should not be that hard.
Any tips?
The basics of what I'm trying to do is:
Have a vim version installed with gui-support, or a work-around where my colors are all screwed up.
Thanks!
Building Vim on Mac OS X is a waste of time.
Step 1: Download the appropriate MacVim build from here.
Step 2: Put MacVim.app into the /Applications/ directory.
Step 3: Put the bundled mvim script somewhere in your PATH.
Done.
To run MacVim in your shell:
$ mvim -v filename
To run MacVim from your shell:
$ mvim filename
Building Vim with GUI on macOS using Homebrew:
brew edit vim.
Add a new line with option for GUI:
option "enable-gui", "Enable GUI mode"
Change from no to yes in the following line:
opts << "--enable-gui=no"
Install or re-install vim:
brew reinstall vim --enable-gui
Troubleshooting:
If you've errors related to Python 3, see: vim's GH-2754.
Checkout new Homebrew PR at GH-25785 with above patch.
this is the first time I ask on stackoverflow because I can't find the answer anywhere. I use emacs to write all my code and I just switched from ubuntu to mac os. One problem has been bothering me: How could you open emacs window from mac terminal just like you would open firefox window from terminal on Linux system? I know the way it works for Linux system is that, whenever you type a command from terminal, the terminal search for the binary in you PATH and execute it. Is it the case for Mac that you can only open applicaiton in window form under "/Application" directory and all binaries opened from terminal are in non-window form? Big thanks!!
The pre-installed Emacs that comes with OS X is built without the GUI. Hence
$ emacs # in the shell/terminal
will NOT open a graphical window, and instead will open up the text/terminal version instead. Note that this version (installed at /usr/bin/emacs) is also old, and is at 22.1.1 in Mountain Lion.
To get the behavior you desire (and also get the latest version of Emacs as a bonus), you can download the latest Emacs build. This is available at various places, including http://emacsforosx.com/.
Most of these pre-built Emacs are installed under /Applications, and in order to invoke from the terminal, you will need to specify the full path to the binary, which usually is:
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
You can create a simple alias to this binary in your .bashrc as:
alias emacs=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
and then invoke emacs in its full glory from the command line.
I just tried
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal &
and it did open a new window just fine.
OS X 10.7.4 here.
EDIT: Indeed if I try:
open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
No new terminal window is opened
But,
open --new /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
works also, and is probably better than my first option because the job is not tied to the terminal you started the new terminal with.
First, download a Mac OS/X emacs build from here: http://emacsformacosx.com/
Second, once it's installed, you can:
Open it from the command line with open -a emacs
Set it to run server mode in your .emacs init, and then at the
command line type emacsclient foo for file foo.
I'd recommend either getting emacs via fink, or going to here: http://emacsformacosx.com/
This will allow you to install a local version of emacs that runs through the X server, and thus has the full GUI interface.
not sure if u're looking for something like this
open /path/to/some.app
I'm SSH'ing in from my mac OSX (10.6.8) to a school server running centOS5 and when I attempt to use VIM, it won't stop flashing inside the mac terminal. Any idea's on how to fix this? Keep in my mind I do not have the authority to modify any /etc files or /bin files on the server, although I believe I can locally on my user. Also I would love to see anyone's really cool .vimrc config file they want to share.
Try these out:
set visualbell t_vb= " turn off error beep/flash
set novisualbell " turn off visual bell
Though the link may go stale in the future, for the time being this is the source: http://phuzz.org/vimrc.html
I also know that you can set this via terminal options on the MAC, though this is not likely the issue if you are ssh-ing. Anyway, I hope it helps. Good luck! :)
I´ve just had the same issue.
I solved it by disabling the setting "Allow blinking text" in the terminal text settings as shown in this
screenshot.
Regarding .vimrc config there are tons of versions to be found on google, especially github is a good place to go.
to stop beeping & flashing in both the console & the GUI versions of Vim try:
set noerrorbells visualbell t_vb=
autocmd GUIEnter * set visualbell t_vb=
I was pretty frustrated with macvim installed via brew.
First, on installation, it had an issue with the python version.
I did upgrade brew and python. Then I started macvim but it was flashing really bad, to eliminate, I had to ***disable core text renderin***g under preferences -> advanced options.
Finally, it got stable but couldn't open files or tabs.
objc[80401]: Class FIFinderSyncExtensionHost is implemented in both
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FinderKit.framework/FinderKit
(0x10d099200) and
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileProvider.framework/OverrideBundles/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride.bundle/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride
(0x115309c00). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
So I decided to get rid off it altogether.
brew uninstall --force macvim
Installed it manually from here.
Once installed, I used the following command to create an alias. Add the following line to your .bashrc or .zshrc (for iTerm users).
alias mvim=/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/MacVim -g
Now reload your terminal session and type mvim. Enjoy!!
Every time I open my Terminal application at work it starts from a clean slate (e.g. it opens from the ~/ directory). But at home on my laptop my Terminal always remembers the last directory I was in (and all the commands on the screen) and displays them to me.
I'm trying to get this to happen when I'm at work but I can't find any information on it (I've no idea why or how my laptop managed to set itself to work that way?).
The only thing I've found out is that I can change the preferences so the Terminal executes a particular command when the app is started up, but that's not quite what I want (simply because I'm not sure what command I would run to get the Terminal to go to the directory I was looking at when I had the Terminal open last).
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Since you're using Lion, it should do that automatically.
You might have disabled the Resume functionality systemwide or in Terminal.
Make sure it's enabled systemwide. You can also try to manually enable it for Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Terminal NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool true