On 9/23/06, Mark Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:21:13 +0300
"Yakov Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/22/06, Dmitriy Yamkovoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Is there a binary compiled for Windows which allows me to run Vim
> > without any of the runtime files? Long story short, I want
> > something I can keep online or on a USB key and just copy to the
> > desktop of any computer I sit at.
>
> I assume that if the whole $VIMRUNTIME tree is on your
> USB, and you setenv VIMRUNTIME to that location,
> vim.exe will happily access whole $VIMRUNTIME tree
> from there, no ? Is this good enough ?
>
> Yakov
so would it be possible to have vim on a usb key without modifying
environment variables? What I wouldn't give to be able to use vim at
work! I've asked and they've told me to use notepad!!!! They've got no
idea! or assume I don't. They may not be too far from the mark
but I do know which is the more powerful by a country mile!!
Any windows app that does not rely on registry is "reloctable"
(that is, you can move the app tree to another disk and run it from there).
I think vim uses registry for just one thing, which is registration
of "Edit with vim" with explorer. (I might be wrong).
So if you relocate vim to another disk and/or another windows, it will be
functional and runnable except for one thing: exlporer integration.
Even this is easily fixable: There is some .bat script in vimruntime,
which, if you run it, will register the explorer integration in the
new place. I forgot the name of the script, but just several weeks
ago on this list there was a thread about it.
Yakov
