Delete an old version of macvim install#
Delete an old version of macvim upgrade#

Let’s try to delete the text data from somewhere between the files.

The yanked text will be displayed or pasted to the last 3 lines in the file as shown. Press the “p” command to put the copied text in it. Now, scroll down to the 4th line of the text file using the Insert mode and place the cursor at its first character. Now, press “y” to copy the highlighted text.Īfter being yanked, the Vim editor also shows that the 3 line block of text has been copied or yanked.

Thus we have highlighted the first 2 words of each line using the “next” and “j” keys from the keyboard. Come back to the Visual mode once again and try highlighting or selecting the text you want to copy using the yank command. So, we have added three lines of text using the Insert mode and placing the cursor. Now, we will be seeing how the yank command works in the Vim editor to copy the text data from any file. This was all about the delete command in the Vim editor. Press “u” to undo this process and get the same old text on your Vim file as below. In return, all the text that has been highlighted in the Visual mode would be erased as shown. So, we pressed “j” to move 1 line down to highlight the other line and pressed “d” from the keyboard. You can press “j” to move downward and press “k” to move in the upward direction. Start pressing the “next” key from the keyboard to highlight the text in the horizontal direction. So, make sure your cursor is at the 1st character of the 1st line. So, we will be performing the delete operation first. Let’s start editing the new.txt file within the Visual Block Mode. The file contains only two lines that will be edited further. You can see that the new.txt file has been opened in the Visual Block mode. To enable the Visual block mode in Vim, you have to try out the “Ctrl+V” command within the normal mode.

Delete an old version of macvim upgrade#

Hope this helps to others, I've followed a lot of these recommendations without success until I decided to upgrade vim (terminal) and this started to break as well, that pointed me in the right direction.Īgain hope this saves some hours for some.Visual Block Mode of Vim allows us to perform different operations like delete, copy-paste, i.e., yanked and put, etc.

vimrc_bak (suggested by feng kao)Īnd test if this solves the issue, if that's the case then a plugin is breaking your installation and you will need to activate some and figure out which is the one that causes the issue. At least with this method I found that one of the plugins was not working as expected and removing it solved the 'MacVim' issue. vimrc to load the plugins and configuration, when you open the vim from terminal it might still work because the plugins were depending on vim version 7, but when you try to execute MacVim it will try to load the plugins using version 8 and then it will crash, the reason some of the answers worked it's because they are replacing the system vim, therefore MacVim and vim will be in the same major version, if you have upgraded from the previous version the best you can do it's to clear up the plugins folder and then load MacVim or vim and check that everything is working, then start applying the plugins one by one checking that they are not breaking vim.

Delete an old version of macvim install#

Some plugins might depend on the version of vim, and may work in version 7 but not in version 8, when you install MacVim this could be version 8, and the terminal vim version might be 7, both will use the same. I was having the same issue, and one of the answers in here helped me, but not for the reason explained so I thought this might be useful for others.