Paul Stone wrote:
Further clarification -- I went to the Cream web page because the VIM
Downloads page links there as a way of getting a fully patched version
of VIM for the PC:
http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc
"For the latest version with all patches included see Cream below.
These versions are unofficial, but the number of downloads is high and
the number of complaints is nil."
Yes, AFAIK these are unofficial "distributions" of the official runtime files,
packaged with executables compiled from the "official" patched sources, and an
installer, different from the one Bram uses for his patchlevel-zero
distributions for Windows but doing the same things to your Vim installation
directory (C:\Program Files\vim/vim70 or similar), your registry, etc. The
"unofficial" character of these (Steve Hall's) distributions results mainly
IIUC from the fact that Bram has no (enforcement) control over how they are
generated.
What happens when you clear the readonly flag by using ATTRIB in a CMD.EXE Dos
Box? The result "ought" to be the same as when you issue the ":!attrib"
command in Vim.
Best regards,
Tony.
