netrw copy fails, trouble installing v.147

I took a jab at a problem that experienced with netrw 140 for gvim on
Windows 7. Within the past year some time, I dabbled in some of the
more advanced features netrw, namely copy marked files to a marked
target directory. (yes, I've been posting from different gmails
depending on whether I'm at work machine). While I can mark the files
and the target directory, "mc" doesn't seem to cause the files to be
copied. I found this to be the case on two different computers (both
Windows 7), one on which I had admin privileges and on which I did the
troubleshooting. On that computer, netrw 140 works fine for gvim on
Cygwin's Xwin.

I know it's nothing to do with my vimrc (where I do some abominations
to be able to shell out to bash) because I used the vim73/
vimrc_example.vim that came with the installation. I also found this
topic at http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_use/BVcfJHdD6x8,
so I checked that g:netrw_localcopycmd was already set to 'copy'. I
additionally let g:netrw_local_copycmd='copy', but that didn't work.

I did the following to capture any messages in register "a" and Put it
into a New file:

:redir @a
mc
:redir END
:new
"aP

The message is verbose, but identical for both Windows & Xwin
versions, with the exception of the double-dotted "y" character in the
"Pattern not found" messages. I manually folded the longer lines to
try and minimize confusion:

22 fewer lines
<cygwin\home\LoalAdmin\tmp" --No lines in buffer--
Error detected while processing function <SNR>24_NetrwMarkFileCopy
..<SNR>24_LocalBrowseShellCmdRefresh..<SNR>24_NetrwRefresh
..netrw#LocalBrowseCheck..<SNR>24_NetrwBrowse
..<SNR>24_BrowserMaps:
line 102:
E121: Undefined variable: s:didstarstar
Error detected while processing function <SNR>24_NetrwMarkFileCopy
..<SNR>24_LocalBrowseShellCmdRefresh..<SNR>24_NetrwRefresh
..netrw#LocalBrowseCheck..<SNR>24_NetrwBrowse
..<SNR>24_BrowserMaps:
line 102:
E15: Invalid expression: s:didstarstar || !mapcheck("<s-down>","n")
Error detected while processing function <SNR>24_NetrwMarkFileCopy
..<SNR>24_LocalBrowseShellCmdRefresh..<SNR>24_NetrwRefresh
..netrw#LocalBrowseCheck..<SNR>24_NetrwBrowse
..<SNR>24_BrowserMaps:
line 106:
E121: Undefined variable: s:didstarstar
Error detected while processing function <SNR>24_NetrwMarkFileCopy
..<SNR>24_LocalBrowseShellCmdRefresh..<SNR>24_NetrwRefresh
..netrw#LocalBrowseCheck..<SNR>24_NetrwBrowse
..<SNR>24_BrowserMaps:
line 106:
E15: Invalid expression: s:didstarstar || !mapcheck("<s-up>","n")
Error detected while processing function <SNR>24_NetrwMarkFileCopy
..<SNR>24_LocalBrowseShellCmdRefresh..<SNR>24_NetrwRefresh
..netrw#LocalBrowseCheck..<SNR>24_NetrwBrowse
..<SNR>24_PerformListing..<SNR>24_NetrwBookHistHandler
..<SNR>24_NetrwBookmarkMenu:
line 10:
E329: No menu "Bookmarks"
Error detected while processing function <SNR>24_NetrwMarkFileCopy
..<SNR>24_LocalBrowseShellCmdRefresh..<SNR>24_NetrwRefresh
..netrw#LocalBrowseCheck..<SNR>24_NetrwBrowse
..<SNR>24_PerformListing..<SNR>24_NetrwBookHistHandler
..<SNR>24_NetrwBookmarkMenu:
line 11:
E329: No menu "Bookmark Delete"
E486: Pattern not found: ^$
E486: Pattern not found: ^\d\{3}ÿ\d\{3}\/
E486: Pattern not found: \.h$
E486: Pattern not found: ^\d\{3}ÿ\d\{3}\/
E486: Pattern not found: \.c$
E486: Pattern not found: ^\d\{3}ÿ\d\{3}\/
E486: Pattern not found: \.cpp$
E486: Pattern not found: ^\d\{3}ÿ\d\{3}\/
E486: Pattern not found: \.o$
E486: Pattern not found: ^\d\{3}ÿ\d\{3}\/
E486: Pattern not found: \.obj$
E486: Pattern not found: ^\d\{3}ÿ\d\{3}\/
E486: Pattern not found: \.info$
E486: Pattern not found: ^\d\{3}ÿ\d\{3}\/
E486: Pattern not found: ^\d\{3}ÿ\d\{3}\/
E486: Pattern not found: \.bak$
E486: Pattern not found: ^\d\{3}ÿ\d\{3}\/
E486: Pattern not found: ^\d\{3}ÿ\d\{3}\/

Because of the identicalness, I assumed that these messages didn't
contain the clue to the problem.

From a previous posting on this forum I was advised to try netrw 147,
which I un-vimballed into "c:/Program Files (x86)/Vim/vimfiles". No
need to set g:vimball_home because the above directory was the first
valid directory in runtimepath. I confirmed that files unloaded into
their subdirectories and that it superceded the corresponding files in
"c:/Program Files (x86)/Vim/vim73". In fact, I later also un-
vimballed them into "c:/Program Files (x86)/Vim/vim73". In both
cases, it seemed that netrw failed to run. Doing ":e ." yields the
message

"." is a directory

and the buffer appears exactly as an empty file would. Redirecting
messages to @a captures these messages:

"." is a directory
Error detected while processing function <SNR>14_LocalBrowse:
line 14:
E117: Unknown function: netrw#LocalBrowseCheck

I confirmed that all files and subdirectories were readable and
executable/accessible by all users and that there was no funny
business with Windows 7 virtualization i.e. the following directory
was completely empty of visible & hidden files:

c:/Users/LoalAdmin/AppData/Local/VirtualStore

I've been troubleshooting this problem a number of hours, and
somewhere in my rummaging about, I recall getting an warning message
that netrw 147 required vim 7.3.XXX, where XXX was a decimal number in
the 100-199 range. I don't recall how I got it, but I remember
wondering whether XXX corresponded to the patch number. If so, that
might explain it because the gvim for Xwin was around patch 172 (which
was higher than XXX) whereas Windows gvim only "Included patches:
1-46". Is this correct? My Windows version is:

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Oct 27 2010 17:59:02)
MS-Windows 32-bit GUI version with OLE support
Included patches: 1-46
Compiled by Bram@KIBAALE
Big version with GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset
+cindent
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info
+comments
+conceal +cryptv +cscope +cursorbind +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui
+diff
+digraphs -dnd -ebcdic +emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search
+farsi
+file_in_path +find_in_path +float +folding -footer +gettext/dyn -
hangul_input
+iconv/dyn +insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall
+linebreak
+lispindent +listcmds +localmap -lua +menu +mksession +modify_fname
+mouse
+mouseshape +multi_byte_ime/dyn +multi_lang -mzscheme +netbeans_intg
+ole
-osfiletype +path_extra +perl/dyn +persistent_undo -postscript
+printer
-profile +python/dyn +python3/dyn +quickfix +reltime +rightleft +ruby/
dyn
+scrollbind +signs +smartindent -sniff +startuptime +statusline -
sun_workshop
+syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static -tag_any_white +tcl/dyn -tgetent
-termresponse +textobjects +title +toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit
+virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo +vreplace +wildignore
+wildmenu
+windows +writebackup -xfontset -xim -xterm_save +xpm_w32
system vimrc file: "$VIM\vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME\_vimrc"
2nd user vimrc file: "$VIM\_vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME\_exrc"
2nd user exrc file: "$VIM\_exrc"
system gvimrc file: "$VIM\gvimrc"
user gvimrc file: "$HOME\_gvimrc"
2nd user gvimrc file: "$VIM\_gvimrc"
system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME\menu.vim"
Compilation: cl -c /W3 /nologo -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_PATHDEF -DWIN32 -
DFEAT_CSCOPE -DFEAT_NETBEANS_INTG -DFEAT_XPM_W32 -DWINVER=0x0400 -
D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 /Fo.\ObjGOLYHTR/ /Ox /GL -DNDEBUG /Zl /MT -
DFEAT_OLE -DFEAT_MBYTE_IME -DDYNAMIC_IME -DFEAT_GUI_W32 -
DDYNAMIC_ICONV -DDYNAMIC_GETTEXT -DFEAT_TCL -DDYNAMIC_TCL -
DDYNAMIC_TCL_DLL=\"tcl83.dll\" -DDYNAMIC_TCL_VER=\"8.3\" -DFEAT_PYTHON
-DDYNAMIC_PYTHON -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON_DLL=\"python27.dll\" -DFEAT_PYTHON3 -
DDYNAMIC_PYTHON3 -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON3_DLL=\"python31.dll\" -DFEAT_PERL -
DDYNAMIC_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL_DLL=\"perl512.dll\" -DFEAT_RUBY -
DDYNAMIC_RUBY -DDYNAMIC_RUBY_VER=191 -DDYNAMIC_RUBY_DLL=\"msvcrt-
ruby191.dll\" -DFEAT_BIG /Fd.\ObjGOLYHTR/ /Zi
Linking: link /RELEASE /nologo /subsystem:windows /LTCG:STATUS
oldnames.lib kernel32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib gdi32.lib
comdlg32.lib ole32.lib uuid.lib /machine:i386 /nodefaultlib gdi32.lib
version.lib winspool.lib comctl32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib /
machine:i386 /nodefaultlib libcmt.lib oleaut32.lib user32.lib /
nodefaultlib:python27.lib /nodefaultlib:python31.lib e:\tcl\lib
\tclstub83.lib WSock32.lib e:\xpm\lib\libXpm.lib /PDB:gvim.pdb -debug

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