You could just add the following to the top of your vimrc instead of setting those yourself:
unlet! skip_defaults_vim source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim The reasoning is a little complicated but basically if you don't have a vimrc, Vim uses a "defaults.vim" as defaults settings, but once you use your own vimrc it doesn't load defaults.vim for backwards compatibility reasons. You can manually load it by adding those two lines above, see ":h defaults.vim". As for plugins like markdown_preview, I think those are cool but they do require installing a Node.js server instead of just having an app, so I feel that it's a little more involved. On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 1:50:41 AM UTC-7 David Finton wrote: > I added the following three lines to my *empty* .vimrc -- and now I seem > to have the plugins working! Is there anything else I should do? > > *set nocompatible* > *filetype on* > *filetype plugin on* > > Thanks! > > -David > > > On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 1:37:31 AM UTC-7 David Finton wrote: > >> Is there some command that needs to be present in .vimrc to cause Vim to >> load scripts based on the filetype? >> >> On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 1:33:34 AM UTC-7 David Finton wrote: >> >>> Okay. Yee Cheng reminds me that I should be able to restrict this >>> behavior to the markdown filetype. And this should work by means of >>> ~/.vim/ftplugin/markdown.vim. >>> >>> Indeed! This works for me -- but only if I hide my personal .vimrc >>> file! In fact, if that file exists, the markdown.vim script will not be >>> loaded, *even if the .vimrc is empty! *I confirmed this via the >>> :scriptnames command in the editor. >>> >>> What is going wrong, that simply doing "touch .vimrc" to create an empty >>> .vimrc file is sufficient to cause this mechanism to fail? >>> >>> So... rename / remove my .vimrc, and I can open a '.md' file in MacVim, >>> and the :scriptnames command shows ~/.vim/ftplugin/markdown.vim is loaded. >>> Now I close that file, and do "touch .vimrc" at the commandline, and open >>> the same file... and markdown.vim is not loaded. The file .vimrc exists -- >>> but it's empty. >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 12:31:05 AM UTC-7 David Finton wrote: >>> >>>> Thank you; that makes sense! I tried putting the file in >>>> ~/.vim/ftplugin and it had no effect. Could you suggest another place to >>>> try? >>>> >>>> --David >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jul 8, 2023, at 11:28 PM, Yee Cheng Chin <ychin....@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I think the reason why the article you linked to uses a ftplugin file >>>> in .vim folder is to make sure it only gets set when you are editing a >>>> Markdown file. Otherwise if you do it in your own vimrc it will be set for >>>> all file types unless you explicitly uses a FileType auto-command to do >>>> the >>>> same thing. My guess is that you put the file at the wrong place, which >>>> resulted in it not being loaded in. >>>> >>>> On Saturday, July 8, 2023 at 9:54:54 PM UTC-7 David Finton wrote: >>>> >>>>> Solved. >>>>> >>>>> I looked for info on setting the variable makeprg in Vim. In Vim, >>>>> ":set mp" showed me that the makeprg variable was still set to its >>>>> default >>>>> value of "make". But I also realized that I could change that setting in >>>>> my >>>>> ~/_vimrc file, rather than in a script under the ".vim" folder. >>>>> >>>>> I used the same exact setting line from Rob Allen's article, but I >>>>> used it to set the "makeprg" variable directly in my vimrc. >>>>> >>>>> Works like a charm. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 5:27:22 PM UTC-7 David Finton wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I found a simple recipe for configuring ".make" in MacVim to >>>>>> automatically bring up Marked 2 for markdown rendering as I edit. I >>>>>> can't >>>>>> get it to work. Perhaps there is a simpler way? >>>>>> >>>>>> The recipe is from Rob Allen: Use Vim's :make to preview markdown >>>>>> <https://dzone.com/articles/use-vims-make-to-preview-markdown> >>>>>> >>>>>> So I have the file ~/.vim/ftplugin/markdown.vim, and it contains the >>>>>> following line: >>>>>> >>>>>> set makeprg=open\ -a\ Marked\\\ 2.app\ '%:p' >>>>>> When I try ":make" in MacVim, it reports the following: >>>>>> >>>>>> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. >>>>>> >>>>>> I can manually start Marked 2, and in Marked 2 find the file I'm >>>>>> editing and open it, and that works. But I would like to do this with a >>>>>> keystroke from MacVim. Rob Allen's page filled me with hope that this >>>>>> was >>>>>> possible and easy. Am I close? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. >>>> Do not top-post! 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