![]() Henrik Nyh has a great article on switching from TextMate using MacVim. Many people recommend using MacVim to ease the transition. If you’ve never used Vim the Welcome to Vim video is the best. The videos start at a beginner level and work through to advanced techniques, are excellently produced and give a particular helping hand for newcomers. If you are thinking of switching to Vim I strongly recommend this resource. Derek’s videos were one of the main reasons my adoption was so positive. Vim’s contexts were familiar to me from working on servers so I was at an advantage there but I quickly found Derek Wyatt’s awesome video series on Vim. I started out with baby steps, looking back to TextMate and doing all of the common things a switcher does, especially looking for TextMate’s features in Vim. TextMate was my default editor and broadly I was happy with it but decided to give Vim a go. ![]() I had been using vi extensively for server admin work for a number of years so I wasn’t a total noob. Here's an overview of my experience.Įstimated reading time: 5 minutes Table of contentsĪbout 18 months ago I made the decision to give Vim a go as my primary text editor. I have troubling merging several version of vim on my machine.Last updated Saturday, Vim eighteen months on I switched to Vim for editing text about 18 months ago. However when typing vim -version, I get: VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled 19:03:04) Required: gettext ✔, lua ✔, perl ✔, python ✔, ruby ✔ Macvim (because vim and macvim both install vi* binaries) Vi 'workalike' with many additional featuresĮx-vi (because vim and ex-vi both install bin/ex and bin/view) Here's the output of running brew info vim: vim: stable (bottled), HEAD I have successfully installed vim via Homebrew. ![]() Included patches: 1-503, 505-680, 682-1283Ĭompiled by seems that there are 2 versions installed on my machine and the the one installed with Homebrew is not the default one. Here the output of running various commands for debugging:Įcho $PATH: /Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/3.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/opt/X11/binīrew uninstall ex-vi macvim: Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/ex-viīrew uninstall vim: Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/vim/. tar.gzĮrror: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully ? /usr/local/Cellar/ex-vi/050325: 18 files, 348.2KBīrew install macvim: => Installing dependencies for macvim: cscope Updated 2 taps (homebrew/core and homebrew/cask). To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files: The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local => Pouring. Īlready downloaded: /Users/mymac/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/.gz (18 files, 348.2KB)īrew uninstall macvim: Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/8.1-156. However, after those steps, I still get which tells me that VIM didn't get updated: ? /usr/local/Cellar/vim/: 1,855 files, 31.6MBīrew link vim: Linking /usr/local/Cellar/vim/.Įrror: Could not symlink share/man/de/man1/ex.1 usr/local/share/man/de/man1 is not writable. Vim -version: VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled 19:03:04)Ĭompiled by output of both brew info vim and type -a vim clearly states that Homebrew provided version of vim is not installed on your system. Trying to install vim by running brew install vim while ex-vi and mac-vim are installed results in the following error: $ brew install vimĮrror: Cannot install vim because conflicting formulae are installed.Įx-vi: because vim and ex-vi both install bin/ex and bin/view It appears that you have both ex-vi and mac-vim installed which are conflicting formula for vim. Please `brew unlink ex-vi` before continuing. Unlinking removes a formula's symlinks from /usr/local.
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