Question

I am trying to set up a .vimrc file in my home directory. The only thing it contains is the following.

" Enable syntax highlighting
syntax on

Whenever I want to source the file running . ~/.vimrc this message is returned.

/Users/username/.vimrc:3: unmatched "

My working environment is the following.

• MacOS Lion 10.7.2
• zsh 4.3.12 (i386-apple-darwin11.2.0)
• oh_my_zsh
• Terminal 2.2.1
• VIM 7.3

How can I get rid of this warning/error message. What does it mean?!

EDIT

When I try the same from bash it does not work either.

bash-3.2$ . ~/.vimrc 
bash: /Users/username/.vimrc: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
bash: /Users/username/.vimrc: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file
bash-3.2$ 

Answer 1

you can run . ~/.bashrc in console
but you should run :source ~/.vimrc in vim
vim will run ~/.vimrc automatically, you don’t need run it manually.

type :ver to check:

   system vimrc file: "$VIM\vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME\_vimrc"
 2nd user vimrc file: "$VIM\_vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME\_exrc"
  2nd user exrc file: "$VIM\_exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "$VIM\gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME\_gvimrc"
2nd user gvimrc file: "$VIM\_gvimrc"
    system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME\menu.vim"