Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 04/03/10 19:01, Tom Link wrote:
Now, there are
plugins distributed required users to install another plugin vimball.
vimball is part of the vim. You already have it installed. vba is a
simple format for smaller plugins that don't include binary files.
What could cause problems on windows is that most vimballs are
compressed with gzip, which windows doesn't support out of the box.
Since you suggest zip, I assume you're running windows. You could,
e.g., use 7zip to uncompress gz files -- or install some gzip port.
WinZip is not exactly freeware, but when I was on Windows some years
ago it could unzip *.gz (but not *.bz2) compressed files. In the case
of *.tar.gz it even said there was just one archive inside the
compressed file and asked if I wanted to extract it.
Installing 7zip (which IIUC is freeware, and, I've been told, knows
about bz2 format) is also possible, or you could indeed download gzip
and gunzip (and possibly other Unix utilities) from unxutils,
GnuWin32, MinGW or Cygwin.
Best regards,
Tony.
I'd like to add a note to vimball (:help vimball-windows) which will
provide Windows users information on how to get gzip. Here's a synopsis
of what Tony has provided so far:
Item Tool/Suite Free Website
---- ---------- ---- -------
7zip tool y http://www.7-zip.org/
Winzip tool n http://www.winzip.com/downwz.htm
unxutils suite y http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
cygwin suite y http://www.cygwin.com/
GnuWin32 suite y http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
MinGW suite y http://www.mingw.org/
(looks best in a fixed-width font)
I am quite willing to add more tools/suites to the list, if y'all would
care to contribute.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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