Reply to message «Re: Plugin/addon managers», sent 17:47:20 14 July 2011, Thursday by Eric Weir:
> It is not critical, but I'd like to test my understanding of your > recommendations regarding git. You recommend that I not install it, for > now I take it, because if it were installed VAM would in some instances > install less-than-stable releases of plugins? Yes. You can forbid this globally, but if you do what you will need git for? > And thanks especially for this. I'm taking a sabbatical on deciding between > the vimball approach and VAM. If when I come back to it I go for VAM, this > will be the way I will do it. Vimball and VAM are different type of things. You can pack everything into a vimball and install it by VAM because vimball is nothing more then archive type. Default unpacker is able to record a list of files that were unpacked, but nothing can prevent you from writing the same thing for tar. Original message: > On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:56 PM, ZyX wrote: > > Reply to message «Re: Plugin/addon managers», > > sent 23:29:36 10 July 2011, Sunday > > > > by Eric Weir: > >> I get "command not found." So I should install git? ZyX said it should > >> be on my system, but that I shouldn't install it. > > > > I never said that, though my words were perhaps unclear. I meant that if > > you want to make VAM use git all you need is to install it (you don't > > have to know how to use it), but if you don't want (and I suggested that > > you should not want) it is not required. > > It is not critical, but I'd like to test my understanding of your > recommendations regarding git. You recommend that I not install it, for > now I take it, because if it were installed VAM would in some instances > install less-than-stable releases of plugins? > > > Try to do the following: > > mkdir ~/.vam > > cd ~/.vam > > wget http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=13669 \ > > > > -Ovim-addon-manager-0.4.3.zip > > > > mkdir vim-addon-manager > > cd vim-addon-manager > > unzip ../vim-addon-manager-0.4.3.zip > > rm ../vim-addon-manager-0.4.3.zip > > echo 'let g:vim_addon_manager={}' >> ~/.vimrc > > echo 'let g:vim_addon_manager.plugin_root_dir=expand("~/.vam")' >> > > ~/.vimrc > > > > then install any plugin (run something like > > > > :ActivateAddons VimOutliner > > > > in vim). > > And thanks especially for this. I'm taking a sabbatical on deciding between > the vimball approach and VAM. If when I come back to it I go for VAM, this > will be the way I will do it. > > Sincerely, > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net
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