VIM installation on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion can't be found on ~/.vim/

Question

I'm pretty new on OS X and VIM, and I just tried to install MacVim (I downloaded snapshot 66 from github, which is actually build 7.3.754).

The problem is that when I was trying to install Sparkup (https://github.com/rstacruz/sparkup), I found that the installation folder is not on ~/.vim/

I tried this on Terminal:

ls ~/.vim/ 

but it always returned ls: /Users/andreoentoro/.vim: No such file or directory

Any insights on what I do wrong here? I'm not really used to terminal though I am pretty good at working on DOS command, but it's totally different.

Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This folder, its subfolders (like plugin, doc, etc.) and your ~/.vimrc are not created by Vim. You must create them yourself:

$ cd
$ mkdir .vim
$ touch .vimrc

Here is what you should get if you follow the plugin's instructions:

/Users/andreoentoro/.vim
   |-after
   |---plugin
   |-----snipMate.vim
   |-autoload
   |---snipMate.vim
   |-doc
   |---snipMate.txt
   |-ftplugin
   |---html_snip_helper.vim
   |-plugin
   |---snipMate.vim
   |-snippets
   |---(many files)
   |-syntax
   |---snippet.vim

Just copying ftplugin won't be enough.