Re: Vim on XP

On Oct 12, 2013 6:21 AM, "Phil Dobbin" <phildobbin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/10/2013 23:39, Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> > On 2013-10-11, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> >> On 11/10/2013 15:09, Paul Isambert wrote:
> >>> Phil Dobbin a écrit:
> >
> >>>> I'm wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction of some
> >>>> good online resources for Vim on Windows so I can get up to speed
> >>>> quickly with regards to plugins, tips & tricks, etc?
> >>>
> >>> I don't think there's anything special, except for those plugins that
> >>> rely on Python or anything else (I have some Lua code which I can't
> >>> use on Windows because it requires a Lua library that I can't install
> >>> for some reason). The only thing I can see is to use the Cream
> >>> version, which has a full Vim up-to-date for Windows, unlike the Vim
> >>> for Windows downloadable from the Vim site, which often lags behind.
> >>>
> >>> (Note: I don't use many plugins, so perhaps I'm missing something
> >>> important.)
> >>
> >> That's the thing: I have over forty plugins & use several different
> >> colour schemes dependent on file type.
> >>
> >> I guess I'll just keep searching on Google. Something will turn up, I'm
> >> sure.
> >
> > Do you have any specific issues with using Vim and your plugins on
> > Windows?  I have one directory, named ~/.vim on Unix and ~/vimfiles
> > on Windows, that I use for all my plugins. I use Dropbox and Unison
> > to keep in sync across all the computers I use.  There are a few
> > places in my vimrc file where I use conditionals such as 'if
> > has("win32")', but most things work the same in both environments
>
> I have no specific issues, it's merely the fact that apart from the odd
> occasion I've used Windows in, say, an internet cafe & the likes (& that
> was just to access a browser), today was for the first time in nearly
> twenty-seven years of computing that I've used a Win32 machine in anger.
>
> You've answered my question basically: apart from subtle naming
> conventions i.e. _vimrc instead of .vimrc, ~/vimfiles instead of ~/.vim,
> etc the directory layout is the same & if the plugin runs on Windows,
> I'm good to go. Thank you.
>
> Also, thanks to everybody else who responded. Much appreciated.
>
> As a final thought, if anybody knows of a plugin manager similar to
> Vundle for Windows (I keep all my dotfiles on GitHub), I'd love to hear
> about it.

VAM (https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager) is known to work under windows. You do need to install some tools (definitely wget or curl and 7zip, optionally, but recommended, git and mercurial; they are all listed in help).

Does not Vundle also work there?

> Cheers,
>
>   Phil...
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