EditVifm command doesn't show files

[jonmwood]

Hi, I've been following several tutorials to install vifm as I'm a newbie to Vim, but when I run the :EditVifm command with and without ~, no files or errors appear, it's just a quick flash of the screen and then shows the blank file again. Am I missing a configuration somewhere? Does this have to do with setting a certain path or environment variable somewhere? I didn't see others do that in the tutorials I followed. Thanks in advance!

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[xaizek]

Hello.

You should at least get an error message. Try running :messages after :EditVifm, maybe it gets erased from the screen.

Can you run vifm in terminal without issues? Also check that versions of vifm and the plugin aren't very old (they might not work together when one is much older than the other).

[flimofly]

I have the same issue. No luck with the :messages, unfortunately.

[xaizek]

What about versions and is it Vim or neovim?

[flimofly]

Vim 8.2 (MacVim) vifm version 0.10.1

[xaizek]

Please pick up latest changes from the master and see if any error messages appear now (check :messages too).

[ChrisGitIt]

Hi all,

it seems I have the same problem. I could make some further investigations and it seems there is a difference between the console MacVim (mvim) and the GUI MacVim.

When i start MacVim from console (mvim), everything is working as expected. But starting MacVim by, for example, opening files from Mac Finder => Starting MacVim => VIFM Startup results in Exit Code 1.

Here is what i tried so far:

• I tried to remove some "silent" commands from the vfim.vim plugin, but it seems its all the same calls (mvim and MacVim).
• Checked if :terminal is somehow not available and started vifm from within vim terminal (mvim and MacVim)
• Changed values for vars $vifm_embed_split, $vifm_embed_term and $vifm_exec_args (mvim and MacVim)

Any hint how to further debug?

Bye the way: :messages output: Error "function VifmExitCb[14]..60_HandleRunResults": Line 2: Got non-zero code from vifm: 1

Any feedback is greatly appreciate!

Greets,

Chris

[xaizek]

Hello Chris,

you could try adding echomsg options before

                keepalt let buf = term_start(['/bin/sh', '-c', termcmd], options)

and then posting relevant line from :messages. Your description and what you have tried suggests that $TERM might be empty while it's assumed (probably incorrectly) to not be empty in GUI Vim.

[ChrisGitIt]

Hi xaizek,

thanks for your feedback and tips. I have added -- echomsg term_start

Here is the output: {'curwin': 1, 'env': {'TERM': ''}, 'exit_cb': function('VifmExitCb', [{'split': 1, 'cwdjob': 0, 'listf': '/var/folders/gk/xncxfgw55nb5fdfzy4nll8q00000gn/T/vrdeWeW/3', 'typef': '/var/folders/gk/xncxfgw55nb5fdfzy4nll8q00000gn/T/vrdeWeW/4', 'editcmd': 'vsplit'}]), 'term_name': 'vifm: vsplit'}

And for comparison, a output of a working call {'curwin': 1, 'env': {'TERM': 'xterm-256color'}, 'exit_cb': function('VifmExitCb', [{'split': 1, 'cwdjob': 0, 'listf': '/var/folders/gk/xncxfgw55nb5fdfzy4nll8q00000gn/T/vilcZsF/3', 'typef': '/var/folders/gk/xncxfgw55nb5fdfzy4nll8q00000gn/T/vilcZsF/4', 'editcmd': 'vsplit'}]), 'term_name': 'vifm: vsplit'}

As you have guessed, the terminal does not seem to exists. I tried: :let $TERM='xterm-256color' in vim as mentioned here: https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/879

This seem to do the trick. Do you know if I can set this variable in vimrc or .vifmrc by config? Could not find a way to automatically set this value.

Thanks for your help so far!

Greets,

Chris

[xaizek]

Do you know if I can set this variable in vimrc or .vifmrc by config?

Yes, you can if you wish. However, plugin now handles empty $TERM. Thanks for helping to resolve this!

[ChrisGitIt]

@xaizek: Thank YOU for your support. I just saw this issue several times and it seems to be associated with many GUIs for vim. Hopefully this problem gets resolved for all of them. Bye the way: Great Software. Took me a long way to get here, but finally everything falls into place with a good file manager (and integration).