OSX: no text, ttydebug _does_ work

[Jannertje]

So I followed your steps (compile vim with +clientserver, install xpi, point ptero:vimbinary to the right one) and was surprised to see VIM INSERT at the bottom of my Pentadactyl window. WHen I type however, nothing shows up.

So I decided to set ttydebug to the tty I have open in my terminal emulator right now. When I open a text field, I get a regular vim window in this tty and I can actually type as usual, only the text does not show up in the text field inside Firefox.

Using ptero:verbose, I am able to get output in my console. So everything seems to work, however I don't see any text.

If you need some more info, do ask.

EDIT: btw, when I type vim --serverlist, I get nothing; even when my ptero is adding text to the tty. Weird stuff.

[ardagnir]

Are you running XQuartz? Vim's +clientserver fails silently like this if it can't find an X server.

[Jannertje]

I'm not sure if it's enough to just open XQuartz and then use Firefox as normally, but I tried running FF from a terminal spawned within XQuartz, to no avail.

Apparently, there's another guy on SE that did manage to get this working (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10231223/compile-vim-7-3-with-clientserver-feature-on-mac-os-x -- see the last answer). But somehow, it doesn't work for me. Might be my jumbled setup (using both MacPorts and Homebrew).

Idunno. I'll report when things look up.

Thanks!

[jikkujose]

How do you test if Mac has XQuartz?

[ardagnir]

XQuartz will show up in the doc when it is running. It doesn't come with OSX, you have to install it seperately.

[ScoreUnder]

I have the same problem on Arch Linux. Disabling pterosaur also broke my space key until I restarted the browser.

I can see vim when I set the debug TTY, and I can use that vim instance by typing in a textbox. However, nothing appears in the textbox itself, and vim --serverlist shows nothing.

Finding the vim command in the process list and running a similar command works, and does appear in vim --serverlist.

For some strange reason, the pterosaur vim instance has the extra environment variable XAUTHORITY, which has been set to the empty string! I will close firefox, launch it with an XAUTHORITY that makes sense, and report whether this fixes it.

[ScoreUnder]

Yes, setting the XAUTHORITY variable fixes it. As far as I know, an unset XAUTHORITY is equivalent to XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority, so exporting that might be a usable workaround. If I were to propose a fix, I'd like to request that the plugin doesn't export XAUTHORITY if it's not in firefox's environment.

I don't know if the issue is the same for you, @Jannertje but I hope it is. Test it by closing firefox, and invoking it like this:

XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority firefox

Then see if the plugin suddenly works. If so, we are experiencing the same problem.