'Uninstalled MacVim, now can't use regular Vim?

I got a new machine at work. The previous developer had macvim installed. When typing 'vim' in the terminal, the macvim program would open. I uninstalled macvim because I don't use it. Now when I type 'vim' in the terminal, it says, "Sorry, cannot find MacVim.app." I want to just run vim in the terminal. Is this an alias or something? How can I quickly fix!

Solution 1:^[1]

you can enter this into the terminal:

which vim
alias

to see info about defined aliases and what happens when you try to run vim

Solution 2:^[2]

The previous user installed the mvim script that comes with MacVim somewhere in the $PATH or elsewhere and probably symlinked it or created an alias.

To get rid of that behaviour, try the following:

look into your ~/.bashrc or whatever if there's an alias that point at mvim
look everywhere in your $PATH for a mvim script, maybe
```
$ which mvim
```
will do
make sure /usr/bin/vim is a real Vim executable and not a symlink with this command
```
$ file /usr/bin/vim
```

If it's symlinked then you have trouble, If it's only an alias simply remove it. If you don't want to mess around too much, you can add an alias to /usr/bin/vim in your ~/.profile or whatever.

Whatever you do, I'd recommend you to re-install MacVim as it is a lot better than the default Vim in almost every way.

Solution 3:^[3]

Is there still a file here: /usr/bin/vim ?

If that got deleted, then you'll need to reinstall vim.

I suggest using Link as your package manager

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Solution 2	Brian Diggs
Solution 3	Glorfindel

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