Hari Krishna Dara wrote:
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 at 1:46am, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Hari Krishna Dara wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 at 4:05pm, Dmitriy Yamkovoy wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a binary compiled for Windows which allows me to run Vim
without any of the runtime files? Long story short, I want something
I can keep online or on a USB key and just copy to the desktop of any
computer I sit at.
Thanks,
-Dmitriy
I think Vim, when behaving as plain Vi, doesn't require any of the
runtime files. E.g., try starting vim with -u NONE option, and run
:scripts command, you will see that nothing is loaded. The runtime
directory is not essential for using Vim.
indeed, but then you will get
- no help (doc/)
- no Vim tutor (tutor/)
- no syntax highlighting and no colorschemes (syntax/, colors/)
- no filetype detection, no filetype plugins and no filetype indenting
(filetype.vim, ftplugin/, indent/)
- no keymaps (keymap/)
- no non-English messages (lang/)
- no menus (not even English menus) (menu.vim)
- no spell checking (spell/)
- no "matchit" matching (macros/matchit.vim)
- no directory browsing (plugin/netrwPlugin.vim etc.)
- no editing of remote files (plugin/netrwPlugin.vim etc.)
- no editing of zipfiles, tarballs, etc. (plugin/gzip.vim,
plugin/tarPlugin.vim, plugin/zipPlugin.vim)
- no conversion to HTML (syntax/2html.vim)
- no ":options" command (optwin.vim)
- no vimrc_example.vim (vimrc_example.vim)
etc.,
in other words, you would lose most of the things which, IMHO, make Vim
great.
First of all, I presumed that that is what OP wanted. Secondly, it is
still several magnitudes better than plain Vi :)
For the sake of argument, glancing through your list again I find none
of them to be essential. The only feature out of the list that I use
most is the "matchit", the rest, I don't either (regularly) use or need.
Not even the help? Then you've got a better (and more encyclopaedic) memory
than mine.
In fact most of these features didn't even exist in older Vim versions
(which was still a lot better than Vi).
I don't remember Vim versions older than 6.1 but I would expect them to have
had a help system.
PS: I don't need lang, but I would imagine it to be essential for
someone needing a non-English language.
When typing Russian or Arabic I would also need keymaps, except that I'm using
my own keymaps, in $VIM/vimfiles/keymap or ~/vimfiles/keymap. I also use
syntax colouring whenever available.
Best regards,
Tony.
