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I have installed vim and macvim using macports, and tried copying over my .vim directory from linux. Neither seems to read anything from that directory: my customizations for folding and indenting aren't working, and :scriptnames shows only the system-wide /usr/share plugin directories are being read.

Any idea what's going on and how to fix it?

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  • Macvim is not supposed to read anything from /usr/share I suggest you remove both vim and macvim installed via macports and instead install the latest macvim snapshot from the official downloads. – romainl Mar 15 '14 at 7:28
  • By .vim do you mean a subdirectory of your home directory, ~/.vim/? That should work. Do you have a vimrc file, ~/.vimrc? Can you give a specific file that should be sourced but is not? – benjifisher Mar 15 '14 at 15:27
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The easiest way I found was to add the file I needed to the system vim file that MacVim created on installation. This file can be found using :scriptnames command.

I needed to use pathogen and it was not working placing it in my .vim file in the home directory. I placed the pathogen.vim in the system vim/autoload directory and then pathogen worked without errors.

I found the right directory in /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/autoload

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