Thanks for responding, Ben. I'm not surprised that you find the situation as I 
describe it confusing. I'm simply reporting symptoms that in my mind are 
associated---a bunch of things that all started happening at once. My vim 
competence is limited. I have become a comfortable user---for writing 
prose---with a lot of hand-holding here.

On May 10, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Ben Fritz wrote:

> On Friday, May 10, 2013 9:30:41 AM UTC-5, Eric Weir wrote:
>> On May 10, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
>> I've disabled syncing between the tablet and the macbook and will go back 
>> into my backups before I started syncing the two systems and restore my .vim 
>> folder from there.
>> 
>> Actually, I had a copy that I created right before I started syncing with 
>> the tablet. I restored it.
> 
> OK, so you are now pretty sure your .vim files are good (I guess we've moved 
> on to a new issue...do you still get "swap exists" errors?)
> 
>> I now get MacVim,
> 
> Ummm...ok. What does this have to do with your .vim files? MacVim and gvim 
> are different executables. Or are you just referring to a colorscheme?

No longer getting "swap exists" after deleting them at "var/temp/". [How the 
hell did they get put there?] And I did discover after my initial post that 
there were two other instances of vim running in addition to macvim. [I know I 
had to have started them somehow, but how the hell did I do it? The only way I 
ever start vim is by starting macvim.] 

I understand that gvim and macvim are different executables. And they look 
different. [Tabs are displayed differently, e.g., and the font in use in what I 
am calling gvim was not the one I get with macvim.] I have no idea how my .vim 
files affected which vim was started. All I know is that when I restored the 
backup copy of the .vim folder I started getting macvim.

>> but it's not reading my .vimrc. 
> 
> How do you know? Use :scriptnames to see what scripts are loaded. I find it 
> unlikely that Vim would suddenly stop reading its own config files.
> 
>> Some of my key mappings work, some don't. 
> 
> Which mappings? How do you define "don't work"? It is easy to see not only 
> whether Vim has a mapping, but where it came from:
> 
>  :verbose map MyMapKeys/yankring.vim
>  :verbose map! MyMapKeys

With the first I got:

        "o  M           YRMapsExpression("<SNR>22", "M")
                        Last set from ~/.vim/bundle/yankring.vim/plugin"

With the second I got

        "no mapping found"

So, at this point, what I am getting looks like macvim, but apparently none of 
the key mappings set in my .vimrc are in effect. 

I know, probably still as clear as mud. It's the best I can do. I hope it leads 
somewhere.

I appreciate your questions.

Sincerely,
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Eric Weir
[email protected]

"Our world is a human world." 

- Hilary Putnam




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