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#Getting macvim install#
Then I typed: brew install macvim -override-system-vim
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Before that, though, I was definitely using at least Ruby 1.9, so I was a bit confused, but really all I wanted to do was get MacVim working and go home. I remembered that last week I’d installed Ruby 2.1.3 via rvm. Line 677 of if_ruby.c was housed in this block: 673: #ifdef RUBY19_OR_LATER So, I opened the source code referenced in the error message. I first noticed this behavior after upgrading to OS 10.10.3. If I watch closely, the window does appear to be showing up at the proper size and immediately getting resized down. Besides, I’ve got my vim set up perfectly with settings and plugins, and anything else is a step backwards. Both behaviors only seems to reproduce if I have a second monitor attached and if MacVim's last window was closed on the second monitor. Which means I can run Sublime Text 2 (Vintage mode, of course), but for some reason its display goes wonky on my laptop, and I really didn’t feel like investigating display glitches in a dead-ended editor. I would like vim to point to macvim :)Probably through an alias.vim is here: whereis vim/usr/bin/vimmacvim I can't find, e.g. What this means, though, is that I can’t use any of the latest editors (Sublime Text 3, Atom) because they’re not supported on Snow Leopard. You never really want to get on IT’s radar anyway, because them looking closer at your work-issued gear tends to go in directions you didn’t anticipate (“Is that the approved wallpaper? Is Homebrew even approved? Are you running a web server on here?”).
#Getting macvim upgrade#
I may not get one until they sport Yosemite, though, and I don’t think they plan to upgrade the OS on this laptop.
#Getting macvim pro#
I’m nursing this work laptop, a 2010 MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard, along until I come due for one of the shiny new retina MacBook Pros with Mavericks. Then my stomach began to churn a bit, and I downloaded the MacVim source from GitHub, followed the build instructions, and got the same result. After the same system churn, of course, I got the same result. Years of raising children has taught me that I can’t expect proper results without diligent monitoring, so I ran the install command again, but this time I watched it like a hawk, and actually expected different results. My system churned a bit while I watched the github-issues.vim animated GIFs, and then reported: if_ruby.c:677: error: 'rb_encoding' undeclared (first use in this function)
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The simplest fix is to use terminal macvim as my system vim, so last Friday I opted for what I expected to be the easy route and typed: brew uninstall macvim brew install macvim -override-system-vim I always smile a bit at my nephew’s use of an extra-frowny mouth, but I also wince a bit to know that I’m letting this issue linger, rather than fix it. When I do, I see this: github-issues.vim requires Python support, sorry :c Although I usually edit files with (graphical) MacVim, I occasionally launch terminal vim.