Re: Keep consistent vim environments across different platforms

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?
>>
>> --
>> --
>> You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
>> Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
>> For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
>>
>> ---
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
>> "vim_use" group.
>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
>> email to vim_use+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>
>
>--
>--
>You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
>Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
>For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
>
>---
>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group.
>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
>For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
--
You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.