Suresh Govindachar wrote:
Bill McCarthy recently wrote to vim-dev and others:
> Runtime files are kept fairly well updated at the Vim FTP
> site. You can update those files from there. Scripts have
> been provided for 'nix and Windows to update local files.
Only script I found on www.vim.org to help with updating runtime
files involves use of AAP. If there are other scripts, please
provide an exact link to them.
> For Windows, using 4nt, this one-liner will do the update:
>
> copy /[!*~]/u/s ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/dos vrt:
>
> where vrt: is a directory alias for my $VIMRUNTIME.
I am surprised that NT supports /[!*~] as an option to a command!
Anyone know of a version of this command for XP?
I can use perl's lwp-rget to down-load the runtime files to a
separate directory. I can then over-write the entire $VIMRUNTIME
with the downloaded stuff, but do not know how to merely update
$VIMRUNTIME.
--Suresh
I don't know a purely native-Windows way of doing it (though I suspect Bill
might). If you have a functioning rsync program (maybe a Cygwin version) you
could try the "Unix" method to keep the runtime directory up-to-date. The
following maintains the runtime/ subdirectory tree which has the same parent
as the src/ directory used to compile Vim; you can then update $VIMRUNTIME
from it locally (not wasting bandwidth). Don't use this as written (changing
the last argument) to update $VIMRUNTIME directly because this would remove
all executables in it or under it, since it removes everything in the local
tree that is not found in the remote one (a great feature, so obsolete files
won't give you any trouble). I suppose that even if you don't compile Vim
yourself, you could use this to keep a phony "runtime" directory up-to-date
(and that if you create an empty "runtime" directory under the current
directory, the first run of this command will populate it):
rsync -avzcP --delete --exclude="/dos/" ftp.nluug.nl::Vim/runtime/ ./runtime/
The above also assumes that you use "unix-format" versions of the runtime
files (i.e. with LF only rather than CR+LF as end-of-line marker); this is
marginally more economical (one byte per line), and it is OK for Vim as long
as your 'fileformats' option includes "unix" (which is the default). Notepad
(but not Vim and not WordPad) chokes on the LF-only ends-of-lines but I
suppose you can live with that.
Best regards,
Tony.
