On 6 Feb 2014, at 12:33, Andrew Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6 Feb 2014, at 13:21, Federico Calboli <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I want the Vim version shipped with MacVim to be the new default in terminal 
>> (as opposed to the Apple standard version).
> [snip]
>> In any case, when I type 'vim' in a terminal I want 
>> /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim this, not the Apple one.  How do 
>> I do that?
> 
> 
> Assuming mvim (included in the MacVim download) is on your path:
> 
>    alias vim='mvim -v'
> 
> Also I do this:
> 
>    export EDITOR='/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim'

Thank.  I presume both are to be put in my ~/.bashrc?  Incidentally, why is a 
brutal symlink a bad way of doing this?

BW

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