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
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I tried to upgrade my system Vim from 7.3 to a high version so I used macport to do that. This newer version is located in /opt/local/bin/. Later I decided to uninstall it due to some reason.
Now I can't open my system Vim in the terminal, the error message is -bash: /opt/local/bin/vim: No such file or directory. Somehow the machine still thinks the vim is located in /opt/local/bin/.
Then weird thing happens, when I type which vim, it shows my vim located at /usr/local/bin, and there is indeed a vim folder in that directory, but I can't open it by typing vim in the terminal.
So here is the situation: I have two working versions of Vim in my machine, a 7.3 version in /usr/bin and a 7.4 version in /usr/local/bin(I don't know how I got this one). Both working (I have to type the whole directory /urs/bin/vim or /urs/local/bin/vim), but can't be opened in the terminal by simply typing vim.
Updates:
now I can use vi or vim, but the problem is, the former opens 7.3 whereas the latter opens 7.4
At the current command window, type:
$ hash -r
then try running vim again. Or create a new window and try in that.
Bash remembered where vim was found, and expects to find it there again. When you removed vim, it got upset and complained (rather than try to find it again before complaining). Using hash -r vim forgets all previously hashed commands and then finds vim explicitly. Run hash with no options to see what it knows.
See the Bash manual on hash for more information.
The default Vim is /usr/bin/vim. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to change it.
If you want a more up-to-date Vim, install MacVim and use the bundled mvim script instead of vim.
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.
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
I used to install something from github,I stoped it and I can't open iterm-2 too
and I open my Bash ,it appeared
Command not found: /usr/local/bin/bash
[Could not create a new process and open a pseudo-tty.]
I can't input any words.
What should I change?
Google is full of others asking for help with this problem and half-baked solutions, including reboots (re-login should do it if env changed), reinstall (why?) etc.
Looks like a clone of I messed up my terminal environment on Mac OS X and was wondering how to fix it judging by inability to start bash from /usr/local/bin. System default should be in /bin or /usr/bin.
Your terminal (console or iterm2) may have an option to specify shell explicitly, used that.
I am a Rails newbie and in following a video tutorial got to a point where I have to open Ruby command prompt environment.
The problem is I want to use gvim as as my text editor, but I can't seem to get it to work. It gives an error message that reads
gvim is not a recognizable internal or external command, operable programme or batch file
gvim may not be installed in your system. gvim is a popular open-source text editor.
You didn't mention which operating system you are using.
You can install gvim from http://www.vim.org/download.php
If you are on Linux, you can work on vim instead of gvim to check if you are doing the things properly.
Good luck.
What OS do you use?
i think you use win or mac. on linux you may use vim out of the box. if it's mac or win you need to install vim or gvim from vim official site.
after you need to customize you vim to work fine with ruby.
for example
good luck.
When you install gvim in Windows, you have to click a checkbox to install command-line binaries. Try reinstalling gvim and clicking that checkbox.