Mac – Vim Explorer “not an editor command”

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When I open MacVim (installed with homebrew) in the GUI, the Explorer works as expected.
But if I open "vim" in a terminal, I've got that message:

E492: Not an editor command: Explorer

But the netrw is installed. This is what return :scriptnames

4: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.712_1/share/vim/vim74/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim

vim –version

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Aug 14 2015 16:38:12)
MacOS X (unix) version

brew info macvim

macvim: stable 7.4-81, HEAD
GUI for vim, made for OS X
https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim
/usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-77 (1905 files, 34M)
  Built from source
/usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-81 (1918 files, 35M) *
  Built from source
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/macvim.rb
==> Dependencies
Recommended: cscope ✔
Optional: lua ✔, luajit ✘
==> Options
--with-custom-icons
    Try to generate custom document icons
--with-lua
    Build with lua support
--with-luajit
    Build with luajit support
--with-override-system-vim
    Override system vim
--with-python3
    Build with python3 support
--without-cscope
    Build without cscope support
--without-python
    Build without python support
--HEAD
    Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
.app bundles were installed.
Run `brew linkapps macvim` to symlink these to /Applications.

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I had no .vimrc yet, when I added a .vimrc file, the Explorer worked without any problem.

But even without .vimrc or .gvimrc, the Explorer worked correctly in MacVim.

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Solved myself,
here are the steps :-

locate vim | grep php
turn up is this file /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/php.vim
sudo mv /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/php.vim /usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/phpcomplete.vim.orig as backup
download latest php vim file from http://www.vim.org
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copy the php.vim to /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/php.vim

MacOS – vim does not accept syntax in vimrc

A quick and dirty fix is to create the missing file with contents:

" Vim syntax support file
" Maintainer:   Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
" Last Change:  2001 Sep 04

" This file is used for ":syntax on".
" It installs the autocommands and starts highlighting for all buffers.

if !has("syntax")
  finish
endif

" If Syntax highlighting appears to be on already, turn it off first, so that
" any leftovers are cleared.
if exists("syntax_on") || exists("syntax_manual")
  so <sfile>:p:h/nosyntax.vim
endif

" Load the Syntax autocommands and set the default methods for highlighting.
runtime syntax/synload.vim

" Load the FileType autocommands if not done yet.
if exists("did_load_filetypes")
  let s:did_ft = 1
else
  filetype on
  let s:did_ft = 0
endif

" Set up the connection between FileType and Syntax autocommands.
" This makes the syntax automatically set when the file type is detected.
augroup syntaxset
  au! FileType *    exe "set syntax=" . expand("<amatch>")
augroup END


" Execute the syntax autocommands for the each buffer.
" If the filetype wasn't detected yet, do that now.
" Always do the syntaxset autocommands, for buffers where the 'filetype'
" already was set manually (e.g., help buffers).
doautoall syntaxset FileType
if !s:did_ft
  doautoall filetypedetect BufRead
endif

which is valid (at the very least) for vim 7.0 through 7.3, as the file hasn't changed in years.

If you take a closer look, though, it is quite surprising that vim tries to open /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim: I checked the path of syntax.vim on different OS X versions and this is what I got:

OS X 10.8.3 "Mountain Lion"
```
/usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syntax.vim
```

Mac OS X 10.5.8 "Leopard"

/usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/syntax.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/syntax.vim

I'd expect Mac OS X "Snow Leopard" to follow a similar pattern, so why is the path different? What has changed in vim, have you compiled a newer version or replaced it?

It could also be that /usr/share/vim/vim<version>/syntax/syntax.vim exists, in which case, as an alternative, you could create a link:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/vim/syntax/
sudo ln /usr/share/vim/vim<version>/syntax/syntax.vim /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim

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