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I am trying to install vim LaTeX suite but on the website there isn't specifically any files I can find for mac so I am confused. Where do I go to download it.

I currently run OS X 10.12.6 if that matters.

Thanks.

user279540
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  • Ok so I downloaded the contents into my computer and then in the home directory I did mkdir .vim to make a new directory, but when I did ls in the home directory I could not find the folder. – user279540 Mar 09 '18 at 23:06
  • I should be same for any linux/unix right? – user279540 Mar 09 '18 at 23:23
  • Oh ok, can anyone else answer? I went to that link and went to the linked post linked in the link given in the post. I went and downloaded macvim, does this suffice or do I need to do more? – user279540 Mar 09 '18 at 23:52
  • Well, does it work? Doesn't that tell you whether it suffices or not? Are you sure you didn't have vim to begin with? OS X used to have it out-of-the-box, as far as I remember, so you only needed to install the plugin or whatever. – cfr Mar 10 '18 at 01:59
  • Its just a text editor, I thought I would be able to compile the latex. I dont know if it is supposed to compile it. – user279540 Mar 10 '18 at 02:42
  • Yes I believe that is the situation, I'm not sure how to install the plugin. – user279540 Mar 10 '18 at 02:43
  • I am using the solution tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112698/how-to-install-vim-latex here, but I'm not sure how to get .vimrc...Am I supposed to create that directory somewhere?... EDIT: I found a file named vimrc in the root, but I was unable to get access to edit it – user279540 Mar 10 '18 at 03:40
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    @user279540: .vimrc is your local config file. Under Linux and Unix it can be created in your home directory, i.e. ~/.vimrc. Under Windows it should be in the home directory as well, maybe as _vimrc. No idea about Mac. You could try just to use ~/.vimrc inside vim, e.g. w ~/.vimrc to write the current content to it. – Martin Scharrer Mar 16 '18 at 06:58
  • @user279540 on Mac it should be .vimrc I guess (literally guess). After you did mkdir .vim you didn't find it using ls because ls doesn't show files beginning with a dot. Use ls -a to also see all files in the current directory which start with a dot. – Skillmon Mar 17 '18 at 16:31

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