Thanks for the advice Al! > On 30/11/06, Tom Purl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I'm trying to use Gvim on Windows from a USB thumbdrive. I found and >>installed the GvimPortable project >>(http://portablegvim.sourceforge.net/), and it works pretty well. > [snip] >>Using this custom directory structure, I hope to protect my custom >>vimfiles directory when I upgrade GvimPortable (or any other app on >>my thumbdrive). > [snip] >>Does anyone know how to fix this? [snip] > On my USB stick is a directory structure thus: > > /vim > - /vim70 > - /vimfiles > - _gvimrc > - _vimrc > > vim70 is the standard vim directory, vimfiles is my vimfiles > directory. Running U:/vim/vim70/gvim70 automatically finds the > vimrc/gvimrc files and the vimfiles directory and upgrading is simply > a case of changing the vim70 directory. In practice, I have _vimrc > and _gvimrc in the format shown below and the real vimrc file in the > vimfiles directory. This allows me to have the entirety of vimfiles > in a subversion repository to keep my USB stick, windows machine > (C:\vim\vimfiles) and Linux PC (~/.vim) synchronised. I guess I could just merge my personal vimfiles dir with the $VIM/vimfiles dir, but then wouldn't I have to re-merge it every time I upgrade VIM? If so, then how difficult is that for you? > What does GvimPortable offer over this sort of arrangement? Not much really I guess. I think some of its exe's are compressed somehow, and it's a simpler installation process, but that's about it. > Regards, > > Al > > P.S. If you are interested, I can zip up my U:\vim directory and send > you a copy... That's a very generous offer , but I don't think I need that yet. Thanks again! Tom Purl
