On 10/07/13 04:45, Hienning Lueng wrote:
It's wired. Did we make any big change between these revisions?
My system: Windows 7 with sp1. Before my upgrade, my Vim installed to
D:\Apps\Vim with following directory structure:
D:\Apps\Vim
vim73\ vim 7.3.1311
vimfiles\ my plugins/colors, etc.
_vimrc
everything works well. But after my upgrade, vim failed to load every scripts
in vimfiles, neither plugin nor colors, everything in it. I dont's understand
for why? I thought that should rename vim73 to vim74, as what I've done for
upgrade vim 7.2 to 7.3, but it didn't works. Now I open my gVim.exe, it shows
me just like a fresh install: no customization, default color scheme, etc.
Is it a bug or some sort of new features?
Your user scripts should not have been in vim73 to begin with. That
directory tree (and now vim74a) is ONLY for scripts distributed together
with Vim, and which you must NEVER change, because any update may, and a
version upgrade will, silently make all your changes disappear.
Single-user customizations should be (on Unix) in ~/.vim/ (and
~/.vim/after/) and (on Windows) in ~/vimfiles/ (and ~/vimfiles/after/),
where ~ (in Vim and, on Unix, even outside Vim) is shorthand for $HOME
Site-wide changes should be (on all platforms) in $VIM/vimfiles/ (and
$VIM/vimfiles/after/). $VIM doesn't change between Vim versions, it is
usually the parent of $VIMRUNTIME (i.e., of vim72, then vim73, then
vim74a, etc.). In your case $VIM = D:/Apps/Vim (and, on Windows, Vim
ought to be able to find it by removing the vim74a element from the path
from which it was loaded, so no need to set $VIM yourself — or
$VIMRUNTIME for that matter). (On Unix, Vim is usually compiled with a
"fallback for $VIM" path, and that's what's usually used, so no need to
set $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME either.)
You should not have to rename vim73 to vim74a. Just leave vim73 in place
(or remove it with all its contents when you're satisfied that you won't
go back to Vim 7.3), the scripts for Vim 7.4a will go in a NEW
$VIMRUNTIME subfolder, namely $VIM/vim74a/.
Hm, I don't know what happened to Steve Hall: the latest "Vim without
Cream" distribution for Windows seems to be a 7.3.829 dated 20 February.
Best regards,
Tony.
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