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Asked: 2026-05-22T15:38:49+00:00

I’m just starting to try MacVIM as a primary text editor after years of

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I’m just starting to try MacVIM as a primary text editor after years of using vi only when I was sshing into a remote server. After installing the Janus set of extensions, I launch MacVIM from the Terminal with macvim . to get a listing of the current directory.

When launching MacVIM in this manner, by default I get two windows, a narrow NERDtree window and a buffer window taking up the rest of the space available and the focus being in the NERDtree window. I want to split the non-NERDtree window into either two equal parts or, failing that, create a new window at least 83 columns wide. From the default setup, I would enter <CTRL-W>l:vsplit, and that would do the job.

Of course, I don’t want to do that every time, so how do I script it in my .gvimrc (or actually, with Janus, .gvimrc.local) file? I’ve tried a number of ways to do this all with no success. Attempts have included 80vsplit, and

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  1. Editorial Team

    I use this in my .vimrc to move the cursor to the content panel when vim starts, you may want to put this in your list of commands to get to the right panel before splitting:

    autocmd VimEnter * NERDTree     "run nerdtree
autocmd VimEnter * wincmd p     "cursor to right
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