Macvim: Opening MacVim inside the terminal

[yamini-krishnamurthy]

I am really not understanding how to open MacVim from inside the terminal, and also open it IN the terminal. I moved /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin/mvim to /usr/local/bin, but then I got the error "Sorry, cannot find Vim executable." Can anyone please assist?

[eirnym]

run /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin/Vim or mvim -v

[KayDee]

Both of the commands are giving errors.
mvim -v still says "Sorry, cannot find Vim executable".
/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin/Vim says no such file or directory.

I checked, it is there.

[eirnym]

The version you moved checks actual vim binary from a directory above. It' better just to add /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin folder to the PATH

[anthonybrown]

you can install MacVim via homebrew and it will work with just mvim from the terminal
or if you downloaded the app from the website, you can have an ~/.aliases file where you set up aliases to make things easy to open from the terminal. eg --->

alias mvim="/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin/mvim"

now when you do mvim . from a directory, it will open in MacVim

[ychin]

@KayDee Did you copy or move mvim from /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin? That binary needs to remain where it was and you should call it directly instead of copying it.

You could either add /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin to your path, or better yet, make a symlink to it. For me, I do sudo ln -s /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin/mvim /usr/local/bin/mvim, but you can use other folders instead of /usr/local/bin/ if you want.

Edit: Huh, just realized the message I'm replying to is from last year. But the point still stands.