On Apr 14, 2011 at 02:32 PM -0400, Eric Weir wrote:
'/user/ericweir/foobar' is equivalent to '~/foobar', but not to '/user/~/foobar' (which is meaningless).
Furthermore, since you are on a Mac, it's '/Users/ericweir'.
While I'm at it, in floundering around with Vim I've encountered paths that I can't navigate to in Finder [actually, Path Finder]. Some, maybe all, started with "/usr". Where the hell is "usr" on a Mac?
It's in the same place it is on other systems, in '/usr' :) The leading '/' means the top level of your hard drive (the 'root'), and the 'usr' means a directory in that top level. So click on your hard drive - it should be next to 'Applications', 'System', 'Library', 'Users', etc.
Also, it's a hidden folder in Finder. So you actually won't see it. haha. You either navigate to it using the command line in Terminal, or in Finder, go to the 'Go' menu and select 'Go to Folder...'. Then type '/usr' in the dialogue. Be careful though - you really don't want to mess with much in the /usr directory if you don't know what you are doing.
I think that you'll find that using Vim expects a certain level of knowledge about the command line and the Unix environment.
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