Re: How do I upgrade Vim version for Cream?

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 08:01 -0800, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Jan 24, 8:07 am, "Steve Hall" <digit...@dancingpaper.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have Cream installed on my wife's computer and am trying to
> > > upgrade the underlying version of Vim.
> > [...]
> > > How am I supposed to do an upgrade like this?
> >
> > Use the new release of the Cream+Vim installer for Windows, of
> > course:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/files/Cream/0.43/
>
> Haha ok, that solves my immediate problem. But what about next
> upgrade? Since most of the files, shortcuts, etc. should already be
> installed, should I just be able to run the install.bat after
> running one of the "vim without cream" installers?

Unfortunately, a .bat file can't update Windows shortcuts reliably. As
long as the major Vim version hasn't changed (7.x), you can install
Cream or Vim over the previous version. (A feature of our Vim
installer is that it prompts you if you want to delete the previous
version or not... just say no.)

If the major Vim version has changed, you can still just move the
Cream runtimes into the new folder and update the properties of your
shortcuts to point to the new version.

The beauty of Vim is that it doesn't rely (much) on the registry, save
the dll for the right-click menu and whatever filetypes you have
assigned to it.

--
Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]

--
You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php