Hi, For the real vim junkie there are several sources for the "real stuff" ( == newest versions of vim/scripts/plugins et cetera available).
I myself use to update my vim source with the newest patches and download the runtime files on a regular base. Furthermore I download the newest CVS stuff from vim-ruby, the ruby support files for vim. The vim-ruby files go into ~/.vim/.... The runtime files go into /usr/share/vim/vim70 (== $VIMRUNTIME) The result of the compilation of the sources go also to $VIMRUNTIME (and non-scripts to other places). I recognized, that some files are doubled: Older version of the vim-ruby support files go also to $VIMRUNTIM. Furthermore: Newly installed vimruntimefiles will be overridden with older ones from the compilation results of the vim sources (when a new patch is available...). As it seems with this practice of trying to have always the newest vim stuff on my hd I will shoot into my own feet... If vim recognized a script file which it has already loaded from another place, will it be loaded ? Has vim an automatism to load the script with the highest versioning? How can I simplify the update of my whole vim environment without the need to look into each single file whether it is newer/older as another file of the same name at another place and what version of this file will work with what version of another file of the same suit at shat place? Keep hacking! mcc
