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Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin

Reputation: 636

MacVim unable to load settings from custom gvimrc or vimrc files

Ok so I'm setting up MacVim on my new macbook with Yosemite, using a homebrew installation.

To start off with I have no ~/.vimrc or ~/.gvimrc files setup at all.

Also I'm already familiar with links on stackoverflow which have explained that the .gvimrc file settings are usually applied after the .vimrc settings

When I execute the following command directly in MacVim my color scheme is applied fine

:colorscheme twilight

However, when I add the following line to a newly created ~/.gvimrc file the colour scheme does not load when I restart MacVim

colorscheme twilight

Keep in mind that I have nothing else apart from this line in my .gvimrc file and I have not setup a .vimrc file. If I execute the following command in MacVim

:scriptnames

I get the following output (not all lines included for clarity):

1: /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-73_1/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/vimrc
...
14: /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-73_1/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/gvimrc
...
20: ~/.gvimrc

You will noticed that MacVim thinks it has loaded the .gvimrc file. Anyone got any ideas why the color scheme won't load?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 619

Answers (1)

Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin

Reputation: 636

Ok so it looks like I've figured out what the problem is. The gvimrc and vimrc files were setup fine in the end, the problem is to do with what command you're supposed to execute to run MacVim

I came across the following link:

https://code.google.com/p/macvim/issues/detail?id=138

It was post #6 which made me realise that I was possibly running MacVim in the wrong way. I'm figuring that initially I probably mistakenly ran the MacVim binary directly which according to that post is the incorrect way to do it. Of course because I was running MacVim from spotlight it was repeatedly rerunning the incorrect command.

Anyway, I ran the command Vim -g from the command line instead and it worked fine.

Upvotes: 2

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