.vim

My vim configuration.

Installation

Install MacVim (recommended)

1. Download and install MacVim from https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim
2. Create command line launcher

$ ln -s /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin/mvim /usr/local/bin/mvim

3. Add /usr/local/bin in your $PATH by adding the following to your shell profile (.zshrc, .bash_profile)

$ export PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"

Install xliiauo/.vim

$ git clone git@github.com:xliiauo/.vim.git
$ ln -s .vim/vimrc .vimrc

Install Vim Plugins

Install plugins after openning vim for the first time.

:PlugInstall

Common issues

[coc.nvim] "node" is not executable, checkout https://nodejs.org/en/download/, Press ENTER or type command to continue.

Install node.js will solve the issue, you can do that through homebrew.

$ brew install node

Error detected while processing //. for ""..script /Users/*/.vim/plugged/ultisnips/autoload/UltiSnips.vim, E370: Could not load library /usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/Python

Python3 support is missing for the vim you are using. Check if you have Python3 support with the following, you should see +python3 in the list:

$ vim --version

If Python3 support is not enabled, the easiest way to add is to reinstall vim with homebrew with the following:

$ brew install vim

It is also useful to make sure that you are using the homebrew vim instead of system vim:

$ which vim
/usr/local/bin/vim

Make sure to change git vim to the homebrew vim as well:

$ git config --global core.editor "/usr/local/bin/vim"

Additionally, sometimes homebrew installs a newer version of python, but vim is compiled with a different version (for example when you download the compiled MacVim binary directly from its releases) will complaining for a speific version missing like Python 3.8. You can install that version to solve the issue.

$ brew install python@3.8
$ brew unlink python@3.9
$ brew link --force python@3.8