If I want to open a file in MacVim from the terminal. I use the following the command open -a MacVim --args filepath
.
It disregards my working dir so I need to always specify the full path when opening a file. When I do open -a MacVim --args piano.py
it assumes the file is in $HOME no matter what is my $PWD.
It is just an example. It applies to any application. Macos seems to not have the "Startup Folder" or "Start in" feature for executables in Windows.
I took a look in the mvim implementation.
# Note: this isn't perfect, because any error output goes to the
# terminal instead of the console log.
# But if you use open instead, you will need to fully qualify the
# path names for any filenames you specify, which is hard.
exec "$binary" -g $opts ${1:+"$@"}
Can I get MacVim to accept a startup path?
Best Answer
Since you're using MacVim, and it doesn't seem to be a problem with the
open
command:MacVim comes with its own script called
mvim
.You can use it just like
gvim
to open files in the MacVim GUI, or pass-v
to it to open in regular text mode with the ability to use:gui
later.Also, you can just use
open -a MacVim <file>
, no need to use--args
. It'll figure it out just as if you double-clicked on the file in the Finder.