Tony,
On Sun 13-Aug-06 10:48pm -0600, you wrote:
> src/ shouldn't be part of your "production" installation. You need it to
> compile Vim, but that should be done elsewhere than where Vim will
> reside for day-to-day editing. For instance, a typical "production"
> installation of Vim will reside in
>
> C:\Program Files\vim\vim70
You will find that vim70src.zip unpacks to vim\vim70\src.
When the zip files are unpacked, src is part of runtime - it
always has as far back as I remember. It works just fine.
> and its subdirectories. To compile Vim, I keep the source safely apart
> (so if the compile fails, my "production Vim doesn't get clobbered), for
> instance in
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Tony\compile\vim\vim70
The makefile builds to src and its subdirectories. It
doesn't clobber production EXEs which are a level above.
When I'm happy that, say gvim, is running fine, I copy:
copy gvim.exe ..\gvim-7.0.51.exe
copy gvim.exe ..
and keep about 5 good working versions.
> On my Linux system, $VIM/vim70/print contains only *.ps files. These
> should, I suppose, not be required on a normal Windows installation
> since on Windows the ":hardcopy" command doesn't use PostScript.
Yes, I was also surprised to see that directory now part of
the Windows runtime. But it is there - check out the FTP
site.
> Searching for *.bmp files is normal; it's explained as item 3 under
> ":help toolbar-icons". If your 'rtp' directories don't have bitmap/
> subdirectories, or if the latter are empty, the search should proceed
> rather quickly, and then you should get the built-in icons. Creating an
> empty bitmaps/ subdirectory in $VIMRUNTIME may or may not make the GUI
> startup marginally faster or slower. But this also brings us to another
> point: if you have bitmaps/ subdirectories with nonstandard icons in
> some of the 'rtp' directories, these nonstandard icons will replace the
> default ones on yout toolbar. There are two ways to altogether avoid
> searching for these icons:
>
> a) :set toolbar=text
>
> displays text-only toolbar buttons, with no icons;
>
> b) :set guioptions-=T
>
> suppresses the toolbar completely.
>
> These can be placed in your gvimrc if you have one, or (bracketed by 'if
> has("gui_running")') in your vimrc.
Well a) can't work here because there is no such option.
The documentation (:h 'toobar') shows that it is only
available for +GUI_GTK, +GUI_Athena, +GUI_Motif and
+GUI_Photon.
I'm fairly certain b) doesn't work, since I have
":se go=g" in my _gvimrc and I'm seeing the search
messages for those bitmap files and Gvim comes up looking
just like Vim (but with much nicer color options).
--
Best regards,
Bill
