On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 17:42 +0200, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
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> I just downloaded that file and I am not really convinced by it.
> It's not the same as the releases Bram does.
Correct, we use NSIS to accomplish the entire setup rather than using
two separate installers working together. This makes maintenance much
simpler and packaging can be done by someone without Windows C skills.
> The Menu entries in the Windows Start Menu are not identical, The
> colorful green icons are missing,
I don't see this, they should be the standard icons.
> even the name convention used gVim 7.x for example is not there.
We should probably add the version number.
> Looking deeper into c:\programs\vim I see the directory populated
> with plenty other directories while my previous Vim installation has
> just 2 or 3 iirc.
A normal full install should have all or nearly all these (at least my
install here on Fedora Core 5 does):
vim70/autoload/
colors/
compiler/
doc/
ftplugin/
icons/
indent/
keymap/
lang/
macros/
plugin/
print/
spell/
syntax/
tools/
tutor/
If you remember less, you likely had a minimal installation.
> Even the dir name is not Vim it's in lower case letters.
Windows is case-insensitive, this does not affect the installation.
And while Title Case has recently become more popular on Windows,
lower case is consistent with Vim on other platforms and the contained
file structure. (I wonder if this is just a limitation in the
capability of the standard Vim install.exe?)
> I get a dialog all the time starting Vim saying I have to "register
> vim".
(See Tony's previous post.)
> I therefore decided to go back to plain 7.0 release version of gVim
> for Windows.
Aren't you glad you didn't have to pay for it?
--
Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
