Thank you, Yee Cheng Chin! Yes, putting the same contents inside ~./vimrc worked:
set nu set ruler set rulerformat=%l\:%c set autoindent syntax on set nocompatible set t_Co=256 set tabstop=4 set laststatus=2 set encoding=utf-8 if has("gui_running") if has("gui_gtk2") set guifont=Inconsolata\ 12 elseif has("gui_macvim") set guifont=JetBrains\ Mono\ Regular:h14 elseif has("gui_win32") set guifont=Consolas:h11:cANSI endif endif colorscheme pencil set background=light let g:airline_theme = 'pencil' call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged') Plug 'itchyny/lightline.vim' Plug 'preservim/nerdtree' call plug#end() map <C-t> :NERDTreeToggle<CR> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 9:15 AM Rod Hoon <r...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi, James-- > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 5:35 PM James Dekker <james.dek...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> My When I try to load it using either: >> >> . .gvimrc >> >> or >> >> source .gvimrc >> >> It outputs the following error: >> >> -bash: .gvimrc: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `(' >> -bash: .gvimrc: line 4: `call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')' >> > > The error looks like it is caused by running ". .gvimrc" or "source > .gvimrc" at the Bash command prompt. > If you want to source the gvimrc, you should probably do "source ~/.gvimrc" > or "source $MYGVIMRC" at the : prompt inside Vim. > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:31 AM Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.mac...@gmail.com> > advised: > >> You probably want to put the plug initializations in your vimrc instead >> of gvimrc. gvimrc should only be for GUI specific options. >> > > I'm not a Vim expert, so this is a guess: Putting the plug initialization > in vimrc may help, because vimrc and gvimrc are run at different points in > the startup process. > > -- > -- > 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 vim_mac+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_mac/CAOZ8HpOzE6YJQXWC6SCXKMckVxT8x4FeoPt2TBSWsOUk42Deuw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_mac/CAOZ8HpOzE6YJQXWC6SCXKMckVxT8x4FeoPt2TBSWsOUk42Deuw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- 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 vim_mac+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_mac/CAJqr9zjp0Dk8XhMSb6oiRto1Jqp_MUha5GzqoEAj0GV%2BzSS3ZA%40mail.gmail.com.