#GETTING MACVIM INSTALL#

That's it.įor example, I got this file, vim-latex-1.8. Now, if you want to deploy any Vim plugin, just extract it and put the extracted directory under ~/.vim/bundle.

Note: The only required line for pathogen to work is the first one, the other two are just some goodies I recommend.

Type this command: open -e ~/.vimrcĪnd add the following lines, preferably in the beginning: execute pathogen#infect() This command will download pathogen.vim from Tim's repository and deploy it inside the autoload directory. Now, let's type this command: curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim vim directory, if it doesn't exist), autoload and bundle inside. This will create two directories (and even the parent. The solution relies on Tim Pope's awesome pathogen plugin, which manage our runtimepath very easily.įirst of all, open your terminal and type the following: mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle I don't use it, but I can provide a very clean way of deploying plugins for Vim.

#GETTING MACVIM INSTALL#

If you use Homebrew, there's already a formula for MacVim available, so you can run brew install macvim Getting the correct MacVim version for your operating system in the project website, unzip the archive file and drag MacVim.app to your Applications folder. For Macs, we have MacVim, and AFAIK two options are available:

Usually, the installation is very straightforward for every operating system. I suppose you already have Vim installed in your operating system.

Getting macvim