Hi, never mind, the solution is at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3478755/macvim-open-file-in-existing-window.
Best, /nm
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 7:14:49 PM UTC+1, Normen Müller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if this belongs to this list but I'll give it try, maybe one
> here knows the solution.
>
> I am using MacVim with one window only. Switching buffers with `:ls`, `:b
> <number>`, or just `:b#`.
>
> But when opening MacVim from a Terminal, the command `mvim <file>` opens for
> each file a new window. But I want it to reuse the existing one and just to
> open a new buffer within this window.
>
> Maybe it's just a minor modification to the `mvim` script, or a startup
> option of MacVim. Anyway, I couldn't find the solution. Any suggestion?
>
> Best, /nm
>
> P.S. My `mvim` script:
>
> #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ -z "$VIM_APP_DIR" ]
> then
> myDir="`dirname "$0"`"
> myAppDir="$myDir/../Applications"
> for i in ~/Applications ~/Applications/vim $myDir $myDir/vim $myAppDir
> $myAppDir/vim /Applications /Applications/vim /Applications/Utilities
> /Applications/Utilities/vim; do
> if [ -x "$i/MacVim.app" ]; then
> VIM_APP_DIR="$i"
> break
> fi
> done
> fi
> if [ -z "$VIM_APP_DIR" ]
> then
> echo "Sorry, cannot find MacVim.app. Try setting the VIM_APP_DIR
> environment variable to the directory containing MacVim.app."
> exit 1
> fi
> binary="$VIM_APP_DIR/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim"
>
> # Next, peek at the name used to invoke this script, and set options
> # accordingly.
>
> name="`basename "$0"`"
> gui=
> opts=
>
> # GUI mode, implies forking
> case "$name" in m*|g*|rm*|rg*) gui=true ;; esac
>
> # Restricted mode
> case "$name" in r*) opts="$opts -Z";; esac
>
> # vimdiff, view, and ex mode
> case "$name" in
> *vimdiff)
> opts="$opts -dO"
> ;;
> *view)
> opts="$opts -R"
> ;;
> *ex)
> opts="$opts -e"
> ;;
> esac
>
> # Last step: fire up vim.
> # The program should fork by default when started in GUI mode, but it does
> # not; we work around this when this script is invoked as "gvim" or "rgview"
> # etc., but not when it is invoked as "vim -g".
> if [ "$gui" ]; then
> # Note: this isn't perfect, because any error output goes to the
> # terminal instead of the console log.
> # But if you use open instead, you will need to fully qualify the
> # path names for any filenames you specify, which is hard.
> exec "$binary" -g $opts ${1:+"$@"}
> else
> exec "$binary" $opts ${1:+"$@"}
> fi
> #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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