On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:26 -0500, fREW wrote: > Isn't a vimball just another archive? It seems, according to the > vimball help file that it's just a bunch of inert files. It doesn't > really run anything... Maybe I am wrong, though.
When you use :source filename, Vim executes the code in filename. Vimscript (and thereby, a vimball) can do anything to the machine your user permissions allow you to do. Not that I expect anything evil from this community, just the opposite. But I think the concept is broken and is much less obvious than a simple .tar.gz. (Especially on Windows, and ESPECIALLY with an extension like ".vba"!) -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
