On 27/08/09 00:21, bill lam wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, KF wrote: >> >>> This doesn't tell me what it is for? >>> How is this different from the Vim I run on my Windows box? >>> >>> What makes this different and why is it a "portableapp"? >> >> You install gVim portable in a flash drive/portable hdd and take it to >> a computer that don't have gVim installed and use it as is. You can >> take all your vimfiles and vimrc and put it in the "portable drive", >> and all your settings will be "portable"... >> >> This is handy for some job that you would like to do on site, but >> can't install anything on the computer you are working on, i.e. in a >> way you can take your gVim with you. Or maybe in a school library's >> public computer, you insert the flash drive and start Vim'ing... > > I guess that you still did not list the changes that you made. In my > experience the official vim does not have to be install before use > either. Just copying a few essential files is sufficient for working > under window. > gvim.exe > _vimrc > menu.vim > mswin.vim > autoload\paste.vim >
which means NO HELP, no global plugins, no filetype recognition, and therefore no syntax highlighting, no filetype-plugins... I wouldn't call this a "working" Vim but a "crippled" Vim. OTOH mswin.vim is ballast, and if you install vim.exe rather than gvim.exe you can dispense with menu.vim. As for autololad/paste.vim, I don't know what it is for. To have a "working" Vim, you need the whole contents of $VIMRUNTIME and some place to drop the vimrc. Probably have some vim/ directory on the USB key, _vimrc (possibly also _gvimrc) and vim72/ inside that, and that vim/vim72/ fully populated, remembering that on Windows, $VIM/_vimrc is an alternate location for the vimrc, and that the usual location of the executables is in $VIMRUNTIME/. Best regards, Tony. -- You will be Told about it Tomorrow. Go Home and Prepare Thyself. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
