The version of _vimrc installed by the Cream vim "without Cream" installer appears to be an obsolete version and contains a MyDiff() that doesn't work.
I recently installed vim-7.2.303 from the "without Cream" download page, http://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/files/Vim, onto a device running Windows XP. I needed a better editor than Notepad, but I didn't want to install all my usual Vim customizations, so I just stuck with the default _vimrc. That worked OK until I tried diffing a pair of buffers. Executing :windo diffthis resulted in Error detected while processing function MyDiff: line 4: E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or & E810: Cannot read or write temp files E97: Cannot create diffs Here is MyDiff() from that _vimrc: function MyDiff() let opt = '' if &diffopt =~ 'icase' | let opt = opt . '-i ' | endif if &diffopt =~ 'iwhite' | let opt = opt . '-b ' | endif silent execute '\"!C:\Program Files\vim\diff\" -a ' . opt . v:fname_in . ' ' . v:fname_new . ' > ' . v:fname_out endfunction Among other problems, it tries to execute a file that doesn't exist: diff.exe is in the vim\vim72 directory, not in the vim directory. I replaced that _vimrc with the one that came with the original vim-7.2 package from vim.sf.net (2008-08-11) and which has this version of MyDiff() instead: function MyDiff() let opt = '-a --binary ' if &diffopt =~ 'icase' | let opt = opt . '-i ' | endif if &diffopt =~ 'iwhite' | let opt = opt . '-b ' | endif let arg1 = v:fname_in if arg1 =~ ' ' | let arg1 = '"' . arg1 . '"' | endif let arg2 = v:fname_new if arg2 =~ ' ' | let arg2 = '"' . arg2 . '"' | endif let arg3 = v:fname_out if arg3 =~ ' ' | let arg3 = '"' . arg3 . '"' | endif let eq = '' if $VIMRUNTIME =~ ' ' if &sh =~ '\<cmd' let cmd = '""' . $VIMRUNTIME . '\diff"' let eq = '"' else let cmd = substitute($VIMRUNTIME, ' ', '" ', '') . '\diff"' endif else let cmd = $VIMRUNTIME . '\diff' endif silent execute '!' . cmd . ' ' . opt . arg1 . ' ' . arg2 . ' > ' . arg3 . eq endfunction With that _vimrc, the diff I was trying to execute works fine. Regards, Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
