On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Josiah B wrote: > please be patient with me, I'm new to mac and only moderately proficient in > Linux/Unix systems (hopefully that does not last too long) > > I tried installing macvim from Homebrew, but found that it ignored my rvm > selected ruby and forced itself to compile against the system 1.8.7 ruby. > Since Homebrew is a package manage and it selects parts of the config for me, > I decided to compile macvim from the source, which i cloned off of github. > > The configure I ran was > ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-rubyinterp --enable-pythoninterp > --enable-python3interp --enable-perlinterp --enable-cscope --enable-multibyte > --enable-tclinterp --enable-luainterp --enable-mzschemeinterp > --enable-tclinterp > > and then I ran make, which SUCCEEDED and then make install with no arguments > > When I run $ open /Applications/MacVim.app/ I get the message: > The application cannot be opened because its executable is missing. > > When I try to execute Applications/bin/Vim I get the following error > E254: Cannot allocate color Red > E254: Cannot allocate color White > E254: Cannot allocate color Blue > E254: Cannot allocate color Red > E254: Cannot allocate color Grey > E254: Cannot allocate color Blue > E254: Cannot allocate color Brown > E254: Cannot allocate color Brown > E254: Cannot allocate color SeaGreen > E254: Cannot allocate color SeaGreen > E254: Cannot allocate color Yellow > E254: Cannot allocate color Red > E254: Cannot allocate color Blue > E254: Cannot allocate color Magenta > E254: Cannot allocate color DarkCyan > E254: Cannot allocate color Black > E254: Cannot allocate color LightMagenta > E254: Cannot allocate color Grey > E254: Cannot allocate color Blue > E254: Cannot allocate color Magenta > E254: Cannot allocate color Red > E254: Cannot allocate color Yellow > E254: Cannot allocate color Black > E254: Cannot allocate color LightGrey > E254: Cannot allocate color DarkBlue > E254: Cannot allocate color Grey > E254: Cannot allocate color DarkBlue > E254: Cannot allocate color Grey > E254: Cannot allocate color DarkBlue > E254: Cannot allocate color LightGrey > E254: Cannot allocate color LightBlue > E254: Cannot allocate color LightMagenta > E254: Cannot allocate color Blue > E254: Cannot allocate color LightCyan > E254: Cannot allocate color LightGrey > E254: Cannot allocate color Grey90 > E254: Cannot allocate color Grey90 > E254: Cannot allocate color LightRed > E254: Cannot allocate color DarkGrey > E254: Cannot allocate color LightGrey > E254: Cannot allocate color Cyan > Error detected while processing /Users/<username omitted>/.vimrc: > line 4: > E484: Can't open file /Applications/bin/vim/runtime/syntax/syntax.vim > > so I tried creating a vim folder in that dir to copy runtime over, but I got > an error because apparently mac does not permit having a file and a folder > named the same in a directory.
It sounds like you've moved the Vim binary out of the MacVim.app bundle which you must not do. See [1] on how to build and install MacVim. Björn [1] https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/wiki/Building -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
