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Jim
Jim

Reputation: 14270

How to stop these Vim errors?

It seems like almost every time I open a file in Vim anymore, I'll get an error like this:

Error detected while processing /Users/me/.vim/view/=+something=+something=+something...
E518: Unknown option: nomacmeta

The option is usually something different depending on the file. I've done :help view but the results weren't very helpful. Is there some way I can disable this view feature so I can stop getting these errors? I don't have time to run down every one of them.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 260

Answers (1)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196466

:help 'macmeta' is an option specific to MacVim. You are having this error because you are sourcing a view script that contains the command set nomacmeta in a Vim that is not MacVim and thus doesn't support that option.

Either…

  • you are on a Mac but you are using the built-in Vim at /usr/bin/vim, which is not MacVim,
  • or you are on a Mac but you are using a manually built Vim, which is very likely to not be MacVim,
  • or you are on some other system where Vim is pretty much guaranteed to not be MacVim.

To prevent those errors, remove any non-cross-platform option from your view scripts and consider reading :help :mkview carefully, specially the part about :help 'viewoptions'.

Also, &macmeta is disabled by default so disabling it doesn't make much sense to begin with.

Upvotes: 5

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