Wonderful! I really appreciate your help. On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 6:34:55 AM UTC-7 yeeche...@gmail.com wrote:
> 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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