Vimrc error: "syntax: command not found"

Question

Everything worked fine a couple weeks ago and then boom! Out of no where I got this error from my .vimrc. I reduced it to the very ultimately basic version but nothing changed.

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Answer 1

You are trying to source your vimrc in your shell, which doesn't make any sense at all.

Vim uses its own scripting language that is not understood by your shell and your shell uses its own scripting language that is not understood by Vim so there's no reason whatsoever to expect $ source ~/.vimrc (in your shell) or :source ~/.bashrc (in Vim) to do anything useful.

You can, however…

• source your vimrc from within vim via :source ~/.vimrc,
• or simply let Vim source it itself when it starts.