On 11/10/2013 15:09, Paul Isambert wrote: > Phil Dobbin <[email protected]> a écrit: >> After starting with computers in '87 with the now Classic Mac OS & going >> onto OS X in 2000 & Linux in 2005, today I was presented with my very >> first Windows machine (XP Pro) for a project I'm doing. > > Poor you. You escaped from Apple, and now you’re stuck with Microsoft...
Hi, Paul. It's only for a couple of months until this contract is finished & I'm getting to keep the machine so upon completion it'll have a fresh Linux distro installed immediately ;-) >> The second thing I did after installing Chrome was to install gVim74 & >> place a highly curtailed `_vimrc` & the directory `vimfiles` from the >> result of `:echo $HOME' in the appropriate place. > > That’s how I use gVim on Windows at work. > >> I'm wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction of some >> good online resources for Vim on Windows so I can get up to speed >> quickly with regards to plugins, tips & tricks, etc? > > I don’t think there’s anything special, except for those plugins that > rely on Python or anything else (I have some Lua code which I can’t > use on Windows because it requires a Lua library that I can’t install > for some reason). The only thing I can see is to use the Cream > version, which has a full Vim up-to-date for Windows, unlike the Vim > for Windows downloadable from the Vim site, which often lags behind. > > (Note: I don’t use many plugins, so perhaps I’m missing something > important.) That's the thing: I have over forty plugins & use several different colour schemes dependent on file type. I guess I'll just keep searching on Google. Something will turn up, I'm sure. Regards, Phil... -- currently (ab)using Arch Linux, CentOS 5.9 & 6.4, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Spherical & That Damn Cat, OS X Snow Leopard & Tiger, Scientific Linux 6.4, Ubuntu Quantal & Raring GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
