not working on OSx

[aesadde]

Tried to use it on OSX (Yosemite)

I have XQuartz, vim 7.4 +clientserver. I've installed vimbed and pterosaur as explained but nothing seems to work. I can run firefox with pentadactyl no problem but if I try to use pterosaur it won't let me type any key!

[ardagnir]

Can you try the steps in the Troubleshooting section of the readme and let me know the results of steps 3, 4, and 5?

Thanks!

[aesadde]

Yes. Step 3 is ok, it show +clientserver. Although for steps 4 and 5 no output is shown so I'm guessing it is not activating the server?

[ardagnir]

If you run firefox from a terminal and :set pterosaurdebug, pterosaur will send your text to vim on terminal whether or not vim's server is working.

It sounds like vim itself isn't loading (this could happen if +clientserver isn't compiled in, but probably not for other clientserver issues).

Can you:

• Run pterosaur and type "ps -e | grep vim" from a terminal to see if vim is running?
• Run ":!vim --servername pterosaur" from pentadactyl. It won't work, but if you tell me the specific error message it gives, it might show what is going on.
• Type :messages in pentadactyl to see if there are any messages saying what is wrong

[aesadde]

Here are the outputs:

ps -e | grep vim

 3397 ttys000    0:00.01 /bin/sh -c (while [ -p /tmp/vimbed/pterosaur_8cae929a/fifo ]; do sleep 10; done) > /tmp/vimbed/pterosaur_8cae929a/fifo
 3398 ttys000    0:00.01 /bin/sh -c TERM=xterm vim --servername pterosaur_8cae929a +'call Vimbed_SetupVimbed("","")' </tmp/vimbed/pterosaur_8cae929a/fifo >/dev/null
 3400 ttys000    0:00.00 /bin/sh -c (while [ -p /tmp/vimbed/pterosaur_8cae929a/fifo ]; do sleep 10; done) > /tmp/vimbed/pterosaur_8cae929a/fifo
 3401 ttys000    0:00.86 /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-73/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim --servername pterosaur_8cae929a +call Vimbed_SetupVimbed("","")
 3556 ttys001    0:00.00 grep vim

!vim --servername pterosaur
Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal [?1000h[?1049h[?1h=[?12;25h[?12l[?25h[?1000l?Vim: Error reading input, exiting... Vim: Finished. ]2;Thanks for flying Vim  shell returned 1

:messages E492: Not a Pentadactyl command: pterosaur

[ardagnir]

Apparently MacVim modified vim to support a special MacVim clientserver so that you wouldn't need XQuartz, but it only works for the gui version.

For pterosaur you're going to need regular old vim with +clientserver, sorry. :(

(If you're wondering how to get that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10231223/compile-vim-7-3-with-clientserver-feature-on-mac-os-x)

I'll add a note to the readme warning people about this.