On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 at 1:46am, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > Hari Krishna Dara wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 at 4:05pm, Dmitriy Yamkovoy 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. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> -Dmitriy > > > > I think Vim, when behaving as plain Vi, doesn't require any of the > > runtime files. E.g., try starting vim with -u NONE option, and run > > :scripts command, you will see that nothing is loaded. The runtime > > directory is not essential for using Vim. > > > > 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. >
First of all, I presumed that that is what OP wanted. Secondly, it is still several magnitudes better than plain Vi :) For the sake of argument, glancing through your list again I find none of them to be essential. The only feature out of the list that I use most is the "matchit", the rest, I don't either (regularly) use or need. In fact most of these features didn't even exist in older Vim versions (which was still a lot better than Vi). PS: I don't need lang, but I would imagine it to be essential for someone needing a non-English language. -- Thanks, Hari __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
