On Thursday, January 2, 2014 9:40:49 AM UTC-6, MarcWeber wrote: > Excerpts from Ben Fritz's message of Thu Jan 02 15:50:20 +0100 2014: > > > One reason I chose Pathogen was that my workplace blocks all git, Hg, > > > and SVN access that leaves our internal network. I'm forced to > > > manually download zip archives to update my plugins. Anything using > > > git directly without alternate methods is not an option for me. > > Thus learn about vam.mawercer.de and be happy. That does exactly what > > you're looking for, but returns a downloadable zip file containing all > > you want - you can pick the plugin folders you need. > >
That looks cool...but where does it pull from? Some plugins I pretty much always pull from vim.org, other plugins I like downloading the latest revision in an archive from github. > > VAM also supports downloading from .zip files from github or such (I > > would have to read code to understand when that is chosen, however it > > should be easy to replacy the "checkout from git" implementation by > > anything else) > I considered for a while giving VAM a try after this. I don't see any options for using a zip archive from github in browsing the documentation. I may have missed that, but actually I'm not sure I know how to force it to use vim.org either; there are a lot of options and they're all rather cryptically documented. I think I could use some options to override each plugin's repository dictionary to make it a zip and then make the source github instead of vim.org. But that will require me to study the docs and use trial and error for a few hours. And add several lines to my .vimrc for each and every plugin just to get the sources right. Or, I can just keep manually downloading and dropping it in the correct folder. > > > Also note that VAM is both: activation and install/ but you can also > > install manually. If a dirctory is in place VAM does not touch it, it > > just adds it to rtp. > > That is good to know. I was under the impression VAM always tried to pull in updates and then run. I didn't know it could act just like Pathogen. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
