indeed, but then you will get - no help (doc/) - no Vim tutor (tutor/) - no syntax highlighting and no colorschemes (syntax/, colors/) - no filetype detection, no filetype plugins and no filetype indenting (filetype.vim, ftplugin/, indent/) - no keymaps (keymap/) - no non-English messages (lang/) - no menus (not even English menus) (menu.vim) - no spell checking (spell/) - no "matchit" matching (macros/matchit.vim) - no directory browsing (plugin/netrwPlugin.vim etc.) - no editing of remote files (plugin/netrwPlugin.vim etc.) - no editing of zipfiles, tarballs, etc. (plugin/gzip.vim, plugin/tarPlugin.vim, plugin/zipPlugin.vim) - no conversion to HTML (syntax/2html.vim) - no ":options" command (optwin.vim) - no vimrc_example.vim (vimrc_example.vim) etc.,in other words, you would lose most of the things which, IMHO, make Vim great.
- no mswin.vim in other words, it's not *all* bad... :) -tim
