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"vim ~/.zshrc" for installment of flutter SDK


I want to download the flutter SDK and need to open the file "zshrc". this is necessary to set up the flutter SDK. As i found out "zshrc" doesn’t exist by default in Mac OS. Everytime I try to run vim ~/.zshrc it tells me that there is no such file or directory called "zshrc". What should I do now?


Solution

  • vim does, like any decent text editor, create a non-existing file for you. Hence, this looks like a vim problem, unless, of course, your shell is something like sh or dash, in which the tilde in ~/.zshrc does not make sense. Hence I would, before starting vim, verify the current shell: Before running vim, enter a single, closing parenthese on the command line:

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    and look at the error message. The error message will tell you, which shell you are running.