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Topic #78	EE with (g)vim on MacOS? by Lennart - visitor 04/03/2006 @ 23:48
Hi, EE is great and I'm very happy with it on Linux, using vim. On MacOS, I have spent hours trying to get it running. Basically, I can't find a way to have a Terminal window pop up in which vim is started. I fiddled around with .term, .command and simply executable shell scripts, to no avail. Does anybody out there have a working solution for this? Thanks and best regards, Lennart

Answer #1	by Globs - ( 164 messages ) 04/03/2006 @ 23:59
You may replace terminal by xterm. xterm -e vi works fine (as long as you already have X11 started). If you really want a terminal window, I have no working solution. I indeed have a script which opens a new terminal window and starts vi with a file, but the calling window doesn't wait until vi saves and exits, so it won't work in EE.

Answer #2	by Lennart - visitor 05/03/2006 @ 00:30
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. What I did: 1) start X (by looking for "X11" with Spotlight and double-clicking the application "X11" - works, as now I can enter "xterm" in a Terminal and xterm actually opens) 2) try many different possibilities for the executable: xterm -e vim (not found because of missing path) /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e vim /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e vi /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e vi --nofork /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e vi -display :0.0 --nofork What happens for the last four variants: After 1 second, I'm back in the normal editor, without any windows opening or anything. Does EE create a logfile where I can check what happened? Thanks and best regards, Lennart

Answer #3	by Globs - ( 165 messages ) 05/03/2006 @ 00:37
Try this one: /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e vim -f (from a comment which has been added to the usage page)

Answer #4	by Lennart - visitor 05/03/2006 @ 00:41
Thanks again. Unfortunately, still no luck, same behavior as before. Can you tell me how exactly you start X? Thanks, Lennart

Answer #5	by Lennart - visitor 05/03/2006 @ 00:43
Got it! Obviously the "-display :0.0" has to go to xterm, not vim. Stupid me. Thanks again, Lennart

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