On Jun 13, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Tim Gray wrote: > On Jun 13, 2012 at 05:49 AM -0400, Eric Weir wrote: >> Somehow, when I was getting started with vim, I ended up with a vim >> installation to ~\ and a MacVim installation in \Applications. Before I >> started using vim-addon-manager I installed plugins to the vim installation. > > Do you have a Vim installation in ~/, or do you have your .vimrc and related > files in ~/? They are two separate thigns. By the former, I mean the actual > executable binary. If you have that, no, you don't need it. If it's the > latter (.vimrc, plugins, etc.), yes that's where MacVim expects to find that > stuff. All versions of vim are going to look in your home folder (~/) for > configuration files, in addition to some other locations relevant for side > wide configuration. But you should most likely stick with the home folder > spot.
Thanks for the clarification, Tim. I'm attaching a screenshot of my ~\.vim folders with all the folders open. It does not appear to me that I have the executable. All I see are remnants of plugins. [Including something that I suspect is the source of apparent conflicts regarding the current installation of a plugin in vim-addon-manager.] Until now I'd been under the impression that MacVim was just a front end that uses the files in the ~\.vim folder. Inspecting the contents of the MacVim package led me to suspect that in fact the vim files, executables and all, are in it. That the folders in ~\vim are superfluous. And yes, my .vimrc is in ~\. I'm very clear that it's needed and that that's where it belongs. >> If I'm using MacVim, do I actually need the separate vim installation? If >> not, and if I had reason to do a manual installation of a plugin---not very >> likely, but I'm curious---where would I put it? > > You would put it in ~/.vim/bundle if using any of the plugin managers that > expect to find plugins in the bundle folder. If not using any plugin > managers at all, not even pathogen, then you still put the files in ~/.vim, > just distributed amongst the appropriate folders in ~/.vim, like > ~/.vim/plugin, ~/.vim/syntax, etc. As indicated above, I use vim-addon-manager. I'll hang onto the ~\.vim folders in case for some reason I may want to do a manual install of a plugin. Thanks again. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." - Amos Oz -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
