Re: netrw copy fails, trouble installing v.147

Paul wrote:
> 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.
>
[snip]

I'm not seeing that problem, but the latest netrw insures that
s:didstarstar exists. Please download a copy from my website:

http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#NETRW
>
> >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.
[snip]
Hmm, that looks problematic, because it looks like where vim's system
files appear. I'll have to take a look at vimball and make sure that
its not unpacking into system directories automatically.
What does :echo &rtp show?
> 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.
[snip]

I confirm: as the message said, the latest netrw requires 7.3.465, which
is referring to vim's patch level.

Regards,
C Campbell

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