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Asked: 2026-06-01T21:05:45+00:00

I’ve moved from using MacVim to using vim in terminal on my MacOs Lion

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I’ve moved from using MacVim to using vim in terminal on my MacOs Lion and I’ve realized that both:

has('macunix')
has('mac')

return false instead of true (they work fine within MacVim).
This is an issue because I use the same .vimrc on my Mac and on my Archlinux linode and need to set specific options based on the OS.

The only solution I could dig so far is to use the hostname() function to get the machine name and map it on a specific OS but it is not as elegant as being able to check the OS itself.

Anybody knows why the has(‘…’) commands don’t work as documented?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I agree with Randy Morris, use MacVim’s bundled CLI executable.

    However, here are a few lines from my ~/.vimrc:

    let os=substitute(system('uname'), '\n', '', '')
if os == 'Darwin' || os == 'Mac'
    set guifont=Inconsolata-dz:h12
    " more...
elseif os == 'Linux'
    set guifont=Inconsolata-dz\ Medium\ 10
    " more...
endif

    On Mac OS X, $ uname returns Darwin when in X11/XQuartz and Mac otherwise.

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