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protonpopsicle
protonpopsicle

Reputation: 491

Uninstalled MacVim, now can't use regular Vim?

I got a new machine at work. The previous developer had macvim installed. When typing 'vim' in the terminal, the macvim program would open. I uninstalled macvim because I don't use it. Now when I type 'vim' in the terminal, it says, "Sorry, cannot find MacVim.app." I want to just run vim in the terminal. Is this an alias or something? How can I quickly fix!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1657

Answers (3)

user1062293
user1062293

Reputation: 133

Is there still a file here: /usr/bin/vim ?

If that got deleted, then you'll need to reinstall vim.

I suggest using Link as your package manager

Upvotes: 0

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196777

The previous user installed the mvim script that comes with MacVim somewhere in the $PATH or elsewhere and probably symlinked it or created an alias.

To get rid of that behaviour, try the following:

  • look into your ~/.bashrc or whatever if there's an alias that point at mvim

  • look everywhere in your $PATH for a mvim script, maybe 

    $ which mvim

    will do

  • make sure /usr/bin/vim is a real Vim executable and not a symlink with this command 

    $ file /usr/bin/vim

If it's symlinked then you have trouble, If it's only an alias simply remove it. If you don't want to mess around too much, you can add an alias to /usr/bin/vim in your ~/.profile or whatever.

Whatever you do, I'd recommend you to re-install MacVim as it is a lot better than the default Vim in almost every way.

Upvotes: 1

Minthos
Minthos

Reputation: 900

you can enter this into the terminal:

which vim
alias

to see info about defined aliases and what happens when you try to run vim

Upvotes: 1

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