Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Re: perl support upgrade overwrites my changes to templates

On 19 May 2011 16:48, ZyX <zyx.vim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reply to message «perl support upgrade overwrites my changes to templates»,
> sent 03:48:39 20 May 2011, Friday
> by Jim Green:
>
> vim-addon-manager has a feature of preserving user changes when upgrade is done
> (using diff and patch, but automatically on update). Be sure that you install
> vim.org archive using VAM or you will have to use VCS to preserve your changes.
> I guess perl-support plugin is named `perl-support.vim_-_Perl_IDE' inside VAM.
>
> I personally prefer to use plugin's own customization capabilities if it is
> possible, so try searching perl-support help and find a way to put your
> templates to the location where they won't be overwritten.
>
> Original message:
>> Dear Vim community:
>>
>> after I unzipped the newest perl support plugin, it overwrote stuff
>> in
>> ~/.vim/perl-support/templates
>>
>> is there an easy way to perserve local edits so next upgrade won't
>> overwrite useful stuff..
>>
>> I could do this manually and diff and merge but hopefully there is a
>> better way.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jim
>

THanks Zyx, unfortunately perl-support doesn't have such capability or I
couldn't find any... I'll try vim-addon-manger.

Jim

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