[Vimperator] Vimperator: .vimperator for Mac

[Ted Pavlic]

Edward --

	There is *no reason* why _vimperatorrc (created with Vim or TextEdit) 
should not be visible in the home directory **UNLESS** it's not actually 
IN the home directory. If you can see it to EDIT it, then you've saved 
it in the wrong place.

	Find the _vimperatorrc file (wherever you did save it) and type Apple+I 
to bring up the file info. There will be a "General" section that can be 
expanded to show you a field called "Where:". It should read:

/Users/username/_vimperatorrc

where "username" is the short login name of the local user. If it says 
something else... For example:

/Users/username/Documents/_vimperatorrc

then Vimperator won't be able to find it.

	Once you figure out where it actually is, drag it into the "Home" 
directory and restart Firefox. That should fix the problem.

(NOTE: Again, you should make sure that you're using the Firefox out of 
/Applications; you should *NOT* be running Firefox out of the DMG folder 
that you downloaded to install it)

	--Ted

Edward Gomez wrote:
> Thanks Ted, the file was correctly named _vimperatorrc (my typo in the 
> message) but unfortunately OSX doesn't see the file in the home 
> directory.  It is now correctly named without the extension following 
> the instructions you provided.  I hope someone else knowledgeable about 
> Macs can glean through the words and see what is happening.  I 
> appreciate your help.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Edward Gomez 
> <informationeagle at gmail.com <mailto:informationeagle at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     After successfully installing a .vimperatorrc on my Vista laptop, I
>     am now trying to set up a friend with Vimperator on an Mac.  Again,
>     I cannot get Vimperator to read the _vimperatorrc file which I have
>     saved as a text file with the name _vimperatorrc (.vimperatorrc
>     becomes a system file and I am not sure how to access system files
>     on the Mac when they disappear so I am avoiding the dot version for
>     now).  OSX appends the .txt extension to _vimperatorrc and while I
>     can hide the extension, I don't think I am getting rid of it all
>     together.  I spoke to a Mac Genius and he said that was the way Mac
>     does things so this may be normal for OSX and the problem may be
>     elsewhere.  I have saved the file using Finder and clicking on the
>     picture of a house which is what I understand is the home
>     directory.  Is there anyone out there familiar with OSX or Macs in
>     general who might know what is going on.  I was thinking of going to
>     the shell and trying to rename the file from there but I'm not
>     familiar with OSX and how this might be done.  Thanks for any
>     assistance.
> 
> 
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Ted Pavlic <ted at tedpavlic.com>