I have installed MacVim on OS X 12.5 (Monterey) and have the Lisp highlighting working having installed Slimv into ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/slimv. While the highlighting and auto paren management works fine from either MacVim launched from the Dock or vim from the Terminal, the system will not run the REPL, saying the version of vim is not enabled for python.
I installed vim via brew and the python option is enabled, confirmed with a check of --version. MacVim was installed in /applications via "brew install --cask macvim".
I have tried setting a PATH to include the brew directory with launchctl. I tried adding a directory clause to the MacVim .plist file to include the brew directory. Also tried modifying /etc/paths and added a file to /etc/paths.d without success.
Is there a setting in MacVim or vim that will point to the version of vim that brew loaded? Other recommedations to get the REPL working within vim?
User romainl, a kind stackoverflower asked that I add the --version output for vim. (I think it was for confirming the python capability so I isolated those lines.)
sholland@HHC ~ % which vim
/opt/homebrew/bin/vim
sholland@HHC ~ % echo $path
/opt/homebrew/bin /opt/homebrew/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /opt/X11/bin /Library/Apple/usr/bin
sholland@HHC ~ % vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Jul 25 2022 08:23:04)
macOS version - arm64
Included patches: 1-65
Compiled by GitHub Actions
Huge version with MacVim GUI. Features included ( ) or not (-):
acl find_in_path mouse_xterm -tcl
arabic float multi_byte termguicolors
autocmd folding multi_lang terminal
autochdir -footer -mzscheme terminfo
-autoservername fork() netbeans_intg termresponse
balloon_eval fullscreen num64 textobjects
balloon_eval_term gettext odbeditor textprop
browse -hangul_input packages timers
builtin_terms iconv path_extra title
byte_offset insert_expand perl/dyn toolbar
channel ipv6 persistent_undo transparency
cindent job popupwin user_commands
clientserver jumplist postscript vartabs
clipboard keymap printer vertsplit
cmdline_compl lambda profile vim9script
cmdline_hist langmap python/dyn viminfo
cmdline_info libcall python3/dyn virtualedit
comments linebreak quickfix visual
conceal lispindent reltime visualextra
cryptv listcmds rightleft vreplace
cscope localmap ruby/dyn wildignore
cursorbind lua/dyn scrollbind wildmenu
cursorshape menu signs windows
dialog_con_gui mksession smartindent writebackup
diff modify_fname sodium -X11
digraphs mouse -sound -xfontset
dnd mouseshape spell xim
-ebcdic mouse_dec startuptime -xpm
emacs_tags -mouse_gpm statusline -xsmp
eval -mouse_jsbterm -sun_workshop -xterm_clipboard
ex_extra mouse_netterm syntax -xterm_save
extra_search mouse_sgr tag_binary
-farsi -mouse_sysmouse -tag_old_static
file_in_path mouse_urxvt -tag_any_white
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
2nd user gvimrc file: "~/.vim/gvimrc"
defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
fall-back for $VIM: "/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim"
Compilation: clang -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_MACVIM -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -pipe -DMACOS_X -DMACOS_X_DARWIN -g -O2 -arch x86_64 -arch arm64 -I/usr/local/Cellar/libsodium/1.0.18_1/include -D_REENTRANT -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Werror -Wno-error=missing-field-initializers -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wno-error=unused-function
Linking: clang -L. -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/opt/libyaml/lib -L/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/lib -L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib -L. -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/opt/libyaml/lib -L/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/lib -L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib -arch x86_64 -arch arm64 -L/usr/local/lib -o Vim -lm -lncurses /usr/local/lib/libsodium.a -liconv /usr/local/lib/libintl.a -framework AppKit -fstack-protector -L/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE
I think when Slimv executes it is picking the vim in /usr/bin. That vim does not have the python ability. Or maybe it just can't find vim anywhere. --version for /usr/bin/vim below:
sholland@HHC ~ % /usr/bin/vim --version | grep python
cmdline_hist -langmap -python viminfo
cmdline_info libcall -python3 virtualedit
Extending on the above, I see I can do a :ver in vim. I also found there is a test for python availability. That gave an interesting result (run in the vim command mode):
:execute (has('python3') ? "python3" : "python") . " import sys; print(sys.version)"
E370: Could not load library /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python: dlopen(/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.fra
mework/Versions/2.7/Python, 0x0009): tried: '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python' (no such file), '/Library/Fr
ameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python' (no such file)
E263: Sorry, this command is disabled, the Python library could not be loaded.
:ver
VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Jul 25 2022 08:23:04)
macOS version - arm64
Included patches: 1-65
Compiled by GitHub Actions
Huge version with MacVim GUI. Features included ( ) or not (-):
acl dialog_con_gui jumplist multi_byte sodium vertsplit
arabic diff keymap multi_lang -sound vim9script
autocmd digraphs lambda -mzscheme spell viminfo
autochdir dnd langmap netbeans_intg startuptime virtualedit
-autoservername -ebcdic libcall num64 statusline visual
balloon_eval emacs_tags linebreak odbeditor -sun_workshop visualextra
balloon_eval_term eval lispindent packages syntax vreplace
browse ex_extra listcmds path_extra tag_binary wildignore
builtin_terms extra_search localmap perl/dyn -tag_old_static wildmenu
byte_offset -farsi lua/dyn persistent_undo -tag_any_white windows
channel file_in_path menu popupwin -tcl writebackup
cindent find_in_path mksession postscript termguicolors -X11
clientserver float modify_fname printer terminal -xfontset
clipboard folding mouse profile terminfo xim
cmdline_compl -footer mouseshape python/dyn termresponse -xpm
cmdline_hist fork() mouse_dec python3/dyn textobjects -xsmp
cmdline_info fullscreen -mouse_gpm quickfix textprop -xterm_clipboard
comments gettext -mouse_jsbterm reltime timers -xterm_save
conceal -hangul_input mouse_netterm rightleft title
cryptv iconv mouse_sgr ruby/dyn toolbar
cscope insert_expand -mouse_sysmouse scrollbind transparency
cursorbind ipv6 mouse_urxvt signs user_commands
cursorshape job mouse_xterm smartindent vartabs
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
2nd user gvimrc file: "~/.vim/gvimrc"
defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
fall-back for $VIM: "/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim"
Compilation: clang -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_MACVIM -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -pipe -DMACOS_X -DMACOS_X_DARWIN -g
-O2 -arch x86_64 -arch arm64 -I/usr/local/Cellar/libsodium/1.0.18_1/include -D_REENTRANT -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -W
all -Wextra -Wshadow -Werror -Wno-error=missing-field-initializers -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wno-error=unused-function
Linking: clang -L. -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/opt/libyaml/lib -L/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/lib -L/usr/
local/opt/readline/lib -L. -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/opt/libyaml/lib -L/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/lib
-L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib -arch x86_64 -arch arm64 -L/usr/local/lib -o Vim -lm -lncurses /usr/local/lib/libsodium.a -liconv /
usr/local/lib/libintl.a -framework AppKit -fstack-protector -L/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE
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The interesting bit here is vim reports it has python and python3 enabled. However, the python test command errors out saying it couldn't find the files.
CodePudding user response：
MacVim doesn't have python3, it has python3/dyn which is quite different. See :help python-dynamic.
The former can be tested with:
:echo has('python3_dynamic')
while the latter can be tested with:
:echo has('python3')
The plugin you are trying to set up incorrectly tests for python3:
if ( !exists( 'g:slimv_python_version' ) && has( 'python3' ) ) ||
which can't work at all in MacVim, where has( 'python3' ) will always be false.
If you want to use that plugin, you have two options:
- configure Vim properly and patch the plugin,
- use a version of Vim that is built with
python3.