On 4/23/07, Taylor Venable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Do you mean the ability to "edit" a directory and read its contents?

yes


> The documentation says that it's distributed with vim.  However, I
> installed vim using the FreeBSD ports system on my FreeBSD system and
> this pluglin, apparently, isn't installed along with the rest of vim.

That's odd.  The FreeBSD ports build method for Vim is simply to
download the patches, apply them, and do a standard build.  To my
knowledge, nothing is removed.  One possibility I can think of: did you
build a "LITE" version?  (Using `make -DLITE install` for example.)

What leads you to believe that this functionality isn't present?  Do
you get some sort of error messages when you try to do something?


Every time I do something like, "gvim ." or "vim .", when vim loads on
the bottom of the screen I get ". is a directory" and there's nothing
in the window to actually "edit."

I did do some searching on the install I did.  I did not do a "-lite"
version in the ports tree.  I did my install from
/usr/ports/editors/vim (there's a .../vim-lite in the same directory
of editors).  I also found the netrw plugin referenced by Chip to
exist in /usr/local/share/vim/vim70/plugin.  According to what I've
been able to determine, this should be sourced by vim when vim is
executed.  However, try as I have to remember, I do not recall the
command to list the files vim sourced on startup.  Can you provide
that for me?

Thanks for the help,
Andy

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