How to launch a terminal which executes vim from a script

terminal

Basically, what I want to achieve is something similar to gnome-terminal -e vim in Linux.

It will launch a vim window and when I quit vim with :q, the window will be closed.

How can I do this with Terminal?

Best Answer

First create a wrapper script for vim:

#! /bin/ksh
#
# vimwrapper
#
#
/usr/bin/vim

Make the script executable- chmod 755 vimwrapper and call the script like this

open -a Terminal.app vimwrapper

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You could simply use MacVIM to handle this. When you install MacVIM it should give you an option to install the command line shortcuts.

Then, in your Terminal, simply use mvim instead of vi:

mvim /path/to/your/file.txt

Or, if you are super lazy, add this to your ~/.profile:

alias vi=mvim

This also allows you to associate text files with MacVIM in finder, so you always get the right application for your files, weather you open them in the GUI or not.

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In order to do this, type

open -a gedit path/to/file

to open and run the gedit application (using the -a switch issues a command to look for gedit in your /Applications directory).

Alternatively, add /Applications/gedit.app/Contents/MacOS/ to your $PATH, which should allow you to open gedit from the terminal as well by simply typing

gedit

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