Symbolic links doesn't work on Windows. Unless you know Junction (sysinternals). Even that, it is not the same. Git has a plenty of advantages over Dropbox. Like I said, you can start a new branch, test some new feature on one platform, sync that branch in another platform and, if something goes wrong you just checkout the previous version and everything is Ok.
I like this approach because what happened to me. I usually work on Mac. But then I had to open my Windows box to fix a bug in an application really quickly. I sync my '.vim' directory and bang! That plugin that I was using for days on Mac doesn't work on Windows because of some missing dependency. With Dropbox I would have to remember what I changed and roll back it or fix the missing dependency just to use Vim. With Git I just checked out a previous branch and everything was fine. I could work first and fix the missing dependency later.
Best regards.
Best regards.
2014-06-16 19:13 GMT-03:00 Conner McDaniel <connermcd@gmail.com>:
Dropbox can actually be quite simple if you use symbolic links. Just move the desired folders into Dropbox (or Dropbox look-a-like) and then make symbolic links to the directories in your $HOME directory on each machine.
- Conner
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:51:24PM -0300, Alessandro Antonello wrote:
I have a MacBook, a Windows 7 box and an old Windows XP with softwares that
I must keep, for support reasons. I had a Linux box too, but I don't longer
have it. In all machines I use the same Vim/gVim configuration, plugins,
syntax, indentation, etc, etc, etc. This is a long answer so...
First, I have a HOME environment variable in all machines. For Mac and
Linux this is natural but on Windows you must do it your self. In my two
Windows boxes I install Cygwin providing me with a much better shell than
the original cmd. So my HOME environment in those Windows points to my user
directory in Cygwin installation. So I put put my '.vim' folder in the HOME
directory as usually its done on Mac or Linux. This means that even Cygwin
Vim will work with the same configuration as Windows Vim.
On Windows, if Vim doesn't find a '_vimrc' file it will look for a '.vimrc'
file. That was easy but the trick part is that it will not set the
'runtimepath' option with the '.vim' folder. It will stick with 'vimfiles'
folder. So I work around that by moving '.vimrc' and '.gvimrc' inside
'.vim' directory renaming it just 'vimrc' and 'gvimrc'. In my HOME
directory the '.vimrc' file have this content in all machines:
if has('win32')
let &runtimepath=substitute(&runtimepath, 'vimfiles', '.vim', 'g')
endif
runtime vimrc
And the '.gvimrc' in the root of my HOME directory has only:
runtime gvimrc
To keep the '.vim' directory in sync with all my machines I use git. I
don't use plugin managers because I usually made some changes in the
plugins I get. Is really rare I get a plugin and don't change anything so I
prefer manual installations. But you can still use the plugin manager you
like most removing the directories and files from git versioning with the
help of '.gitignore' file.
I used Dropbox once. Its a more complicated setup since you cannot just
sync the '.vim' folder you have. You must copy the '.vim' folder inside the
'Dropbox' folder and that make things not working well. I had the idea
using 'rsync' to keep the '.vim' folder in sync with 'Dropbox/.vim' folder
but had problems with timestamps on both Windows machines. After loosing
some changes I moved to git. Now I can safely test a new plugin, by opening
a new branch with git. If that plugin doesn't work as I thought it would I
simply checkout back the previous branch and everything works just fine.
Wish I help.
Regards.
2014-06-02 22:46 GMT-03:00 DwigtArmyOfChampions <
dwightarmyofchampions@hotmail.com>:
I have Vim installed on my work PC on a remote Linux server, and I have
gVim installed on Windows on my work PC, and I have gVim installed on my
home PC, and I have macvim on my laptop. I want all of these different
instances of Vim to use the same environment and plugins and vimrc's. I
want to set up a standard Vim environment so I can easily download
everything to all my computers, and I also want to easily copy changes back
up so I can make changes easily. What is an easy way to do this?
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