embear
Errors on Mac OS 10.12.5
When doing ":so %" I encountered the following errors:
Vimball Archive
extracted <README.md>: 383 lines
Error detected while processing function vimball#Vimball:
line 146:
"~/.vim/README.md" E212: Can't open file for writing
wrote /Users/robert/.vim/README.md
extracted <RELEASE.md>: 16 lines
"~/.vim/RELEASE.md" E212: Can't open file for writing
wrote /Users/robert/.vim/RELEASE.md
extracted <doc/localvimrc.txt>: 490 lines
line 113:
E739: Cannot create directory: /Users/robert/.vim/doc
line 146:
"~/.vim/doc/localvimrc.txt" E212: Can't open file for writing
wrote /Users/robert/.vim/doc/localvimrc.txt
extracted <plugin/localvimrc.vim>: 782 lines
line 113:
E739: Cannot create directory: /Users/robert/.vim/plugin
line 146:
"~/.vim/plugin/localvimrc.vim" E212: Can't open file for writing
wrote /Users/robert/.vim/plugin/localvimrc.vim
line 174:
E150: Not a directory: /Users/robert/.vim/doc
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I'm using version 2.5.0 by https://vim.sourceforge.io/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=25017 And my VIM version is 7.4.8056. I do have a .vim directory under /Users/robert, but it's empty.
This seems to be a problem with the vimball plugin used for installation and/or your setting of runtimepath. Vimball uses the first writable directory in runtimepath to place the plugin files. It seems in your case /Users/robert/.vim/ is first element in runtimepath, is a directory, is reported to be writeable but in fact is not. Could you please check your runtimepath (:echo &runtimepath) and whats the status of the first element.
Additionally you can open localvimrc.vmb in vim and start installation manually (:UseVimball /your/plugin/directory).
@embear Thanks for your information. I checked my runtimepath as you said and got this:
/Users/robert/.vim,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim74,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/Users/robert/.vim/after
I'm not a VIM expert so it would be nice to have it installed automatically.