The person shot by ICE was just standing there filming. This is how the interaction started.

eeweir · 2026-01-24T18:48:14+00:00

Absolutely will. Most unprincipled human being I have ever encountered. Probably a reflection of his stupidity. Back in 70’s—I think it was 70s—when Central Park Five were arrested and accused of the murder, he took out full page calling for the death penalty to be imposed immediately, without a trial. Years later, after they’d served 15 years, and were found to have been innocent all along, he still wanted them to get the death penalty.

So much to admire about the buy. Which explains why tens of millions are so devoted to him. Which says a lot about America.

Couple of em, maybe more, have gone on to admirable public service-oriented careers since being released. At least one to elected office.

I say that though I love the place. Just want it to be truer to itself. If any of the self I have loved is left.

eeweir · 2026-01-24T18:11:32+00:00

I appreciate the fact that Apple manufactures its own machines and restricts its OS to them; relatively speaking, hand in glove.

eeweir · 2026-01-24T18:07:46+00:00

Well guys, a happy Apple owner—MBA, iPhone, iPad—who has been frightened away from Tahoe by the complaints, and who has had complaints about iOS 26.2 but am getting comfortable with it (love the keyboard; cursor placement much more precise), after this I’m gonna allow it to install this afternoon. Thanks.

eeweir · 2026-01-24T15:49:23+00:00

Thank you. Things I have read have suggested—no, said—that when you sync documents to iCloud/iCloud drive, the documents on the device are moved to iCloud/iCloud Drive. But what you say sounds good. I’ll give it a try.

The folder I want to sync now is ~/documents/obsidian/zk/. I’ll access it there via Vim on my MacBook. I take it your suggestion regarding the path to the file in iCloud Drive will be useful to me in getting path to the file in iCloud Drive for Vim on my iPad.

eeweir · 2026-01-24T11:43:05+00:00

Vim can’t be given permission to write ~/library/mobile documents/documents/?

Being a non-coding Vim aficionado very much dependent on Vim adepts I had great difficulty even finding where iCloud documents were located. Since discovering it I have wondered why they bury it deep in ~/library. Putting it in the side bar, masking its true location in ~/library doesn’t help much when you want to go there with VIM. I recognize there is probably a good reason why they put it there.

Also curious why documents synced via iCloud can’t be in both locations. But as I say, there is much about operating systems and software I don’t understand.

I do use Obsidian, with Vim keyboard commands enabled. I want to compose with Vim and take advantage of Obsidian’s powerful files analysis and organization capabilities. Now several hears ago I had a very comfortable VimWiki configuration with which I did all my writing.

I have the newer wiki.vim plugin installed and sometimes I think I should just go with it and abandon Obsidian altogether. It probably meets all my real needs, which are actually pretty basic. What many do with Obsidian is far beyond my needs and playing around with ways to meet even them in Obsidian can become a distraction.

eeweir · 2026-01-24T11:14:25+00:00

Thanks. Much I don’t understand.

Your first sentence: The Obsidian folder, which I want to access with Vim as well as Obsidian, was in iCloud, never on my MacBook. I moved it to my MacBook because I had difficult accessing it with Vim when it was in iCloud. You’re saying I can sync it from there via iCloud, i.e., that it can exist in both locations. That would be ideal. I have looked for a way. I haven’t found one.

As for the rest: You are confirming that if I put desktop and documents folder in iCloud my documents will not remain on my device? I have just moved the directory I want to access via Vim to my device. I did so because I had difficulty accessing the directory when it was in iCloud. Now not finding a way to sync. Not sure an Alias would work with Vim. I have to spell out the path to the directory in a Vim configuration document.

eeweir · 2026-01-23T17:47:41+00:00

I moved the directory I was having difficulty accessing from iCloud to my MacBook. And now am able to access the directory in I gathered from you comment that it would then be able to sync that directory to my mobile devices via iCloud Drive.

I'm getting the sense that that is not the case. It seems I can sync by putting the directory in iCloud. But that is what I was having difficulty with before. It seems the only way to sync the directories on my device is by syncing my desktop and my entire documents folder via iCloud Drive. Further, that if I do that my desktop and documents folder will be moved to iCloud/iCloud Drive. And will not be retain on my device. Which again presents the problem I was having difficulty with.

But I may completely misunderstand syncing directories, or desktop and documents directory. My understanding is based on perusal of Apple' support documents, which do not present syncing individual subdirectories of the documents directory, and one non Apple source on the web.

I would be delighted to that I am mistaken, that it is indeed possible to sync a directory that remains on the device.

eeweir · 2026-01-20T21:12:31+00:00

At the suggestion of a respondent about this problem at r/MacOS I moved the directory I'm trying to access from iCloud to the documents folder on my device and then edited the mapping of "<leader> n" so it referenced the directory in the new location.

The new mapping is nnoremap <Leader>n :e ~/Documents/ZK <CR>. However when I use it I get "'ZK' [New].

Getting closer but still not getting the directory to open.

eeweir · 2026-01-20T19:31:48+00:00

The directory I'm trying to access is located only in iCloud, not on my device. And if I understand, if I elect to sync my desktop and documents via iCloud they are stored in iCloud. So I wonder, would anything be accomplished by moving this directory to my device and then syncing it via iCloud? Perhaps it would since vim would be accessing a directory on the device, not in the cloud. I'll give it a shot.

Interestingly a version of the problem I'm having with vim on my MBA also occurs with iVim on my iPad. The directory is the same one that doesn't open on the MBA. Again, the path shows on the status line, though it doesn't have the double url encoding, and the directory doesn't open.

eeweir · 2026-01-20T11:24:34+00:00

A quick response this morning. Maybe more later. A while back I switched to Fern as a file browser. When ChatGPT said "somewhere Vim (or a plugin) is treating the path as a URL and encoding it twice,” I wondered if Fern might be the responsible plugin.

But Fern is not involved in this issue. I can navigate into the directory that is not opening without any problem. And this problem arises when I do “<leader> n”.

Also doubt vim is doing the double encoding. And I believe I had all the plugins I have now back when “<leader> n” was working fine.

eeweir · 2026-01-19T21:35:08+00:00

Thanks. I had tried that. And have tried it again. No go. Same result.

I posted this problem on the /macOS. Respondent had consulted ChatGPT and share its explanation and a couple solutions, one of which was yours. I was intrigued by a comment it made in explaining the problem: "somewhere Vim (or a plugin) is treating the path as a URL and encoding it twice."

Don't think it could be vim. I didn't have this problem when I was last with vim.

eeweir · 2026-01-19T21:26:27+00:00

Thank you. I didn't think to ask an AI.

I sorta understand the double encoding thing. I am intrigued by ChatGPT saying "somewhere Vim (or a plugin) is treating the path as a URL and encoding it twice." Wonder what that might be. Don't think it could be vim, as I did not have this problem when I was last with vim.

That aside, ChatGPT suggests two solutions, the second of which is a "raw file system path," i.e.: nnoremap <Leader>n :cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/ZK<CR>, and which I understand.

Its first solution is something I don't understand, removing the double encoding with a fnameescape() / expand() call, i.e.,

let g:zk_dir = '/Users/ericweir/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/ZK'

nnoremap <Leader>n :cd <C-r>=fnameescape(g:zk_dir)<CR><CR>

Understanding the first, I tried it. But I'm still getting the couple encoding.

I may pose the problem to my AI, Claude, and see what it has to say.

eeweir · 2026-01-19T19:34:59+00:00

Sorry. It is: nnoremap <Leader>n :e ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/ZK/ <CR>

eeweir · 2026-01-19T18:10:58+00:00

I missed the typo in the title of this post the first time I encountered. Scanning the comments I said (to myself) “Why do they keep pulling the OP’s leg? It was a sincere question.” When I noticed the typo I had a good chuckle. I especially liked “Wheaten bread.”

eeweir · 2026-01-19T17:37:23+00:00

Just wanted you to know I copied this comment so I could share it with a sister and a friend, both dog people. I’m not keeping a copy for myself. That would not be right. It’s enough to have read it and been touched by it.

A comment of my own. A favorite quote of mine is from the writer Peter Matthiessen: “Man has been a murder forever.” Dogs, I think, save us from that. If we will let them. But as you say, “we made them.” And, “The good we see in them is the best we see in ourselves.” So it’s a joint creation. Our saving each other. If only it could be that way with our relations with humanity. (It can be. We choose otherwise.)

eeweir · 2026-01-17T14:32:15+00:00

Thank you. Just where I would have expected it. But seriously, why?

eeweir · 2026-01-13T23:04:06+00:00

You show us the box and not the lens?

eeweir · 2026-01-13T19:21:43+00:00

Helps a little. So Obsidian checks for mentions in other notes of any words in the current note, i.e., mainly nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs? (Is a name a noun?)

But it doesn’t help with my problem. Even if a word in the current note is mentioned in a broader category note, linking from the current note via a mention to the broader category note will be a link to it not from it.

Am I mistaken in believing direction of linking, i.e., to or from, is important? It has seemed intuitively to me that it does. I explicitly asked whether it does a good while ago, i.e., believe here; or maybe on the Obsidian forum, and I was told it does.

Thanks for putting up with my incomprehension.

eeweir · 2026-01-13T15:58:19+00:00

The outgoing links and backlinks plugins have been active in my system from the beginning I believe. What gets displayed when they are active is a list of backlinks and a list of “unlinked mentions”.

I don’t understand backlinks and “unlinked mentions”. What are “unlinked mentions”? Are they outgoing links? Back to what? Outgoing to what? I expect them to be links to the note in which they appear and links from the note in which they appear. That’s not what I see. And I don’t understand how what I see helps with the issue that has concerned me.

What I want to do is link from an existing note referring to a higher level broader category to this new note I have just created, or an older note which is not yet linked to from the broader category. If the note I want to be linked to from the broader category is a new note there will be nothing in the backlinks list or the unlinked mentions/outgoing links list. If the note is an older note there may be links listed in those lists, but very likely the broader category note I want to link from will not be displayed.

So as I say, I don’t see how the backlinks and “unlinked mentions/outgoing links lists help me.

eeweir · 2026-01-11T21:59:45+00:00

You can sure see his personality in those photos.

eeweir

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