Re: what is the advantage to use the vimball to get plugins?

yixiaodafang@gmail.com wrote:
> As an average user, I sometime to get plugins for vim. For most
> computer users, we download the files and unzip them. Now, there are
> plugins distributed required users to install another plugin vimball.
> It is confused and causing problems for casual users. So here is the
> question, what is the advantages to use vimball? Is it possible the
> zip packages been distributed also?
>
* vimballs have :RmVimball, which allows one to remove vimball-installed
plugins
* vimball "knows" where to put plugins; one does not need to determine
where to do the unzipping or to move the vimball somewhere first. Ie.
one can use :so % on a vimball anywhere; the vimball's contents
will be placed correctly based on your runtimepath.
* vimball sets up the help (if any) automatically
* you do not need to install another plugin -- vimball comes with vim,
so if you've got vim (since vim v7.1), you've got vimball. You do need
to enable noncompatibility mode (:set nocp) and to enable plugins
(filetype plugin on). Of course, if one is intending to use plugins
from vim.sf.net, at the least these two things need to be done anyway.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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