created 2004 · complexity basic · author Charles E. Campbell, Jr. · version 6.0
This tip is deprecated for the following reasons:
''This tip is obsolete: use Mercurial instead; see building Vim and using Mercurial.
Do you want the latest, official syntax highlighting files, runtime scripts, documents, macros, language support, plugins, etc? See
ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/colors ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/compiler ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/doc ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/lang ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/macros ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/tools
Patches and whatnot are distributed on vim-dev, but typically don't contain the updates to files in the directories above. If you're having a problem with syntax highlighting, for instance, check the syntax repository above just in case its been fixed already.
In my own case, I put experimental versions of syntax highlighting files and plugins that I maintain here, such as netrw.vim (netrw v46a now supports remote directory listing for example).
Comments
If you have rsync
installed, you can use it to synchronize your runtime files. I use it to keep my "master" runtimes up-to-date, currently at ~/.build/vim/vim72/runtime/
, as follows (the "parent" vim72
directory being the current directory):
rsync -avzcP --delete --exclude="/dos/" ftp.nluug.nl::Vim/runtime/ ./runtime/
On Linux, I follow that by a make installruntime
step if anything other than tags
has been updated.
Note: Even on Windows, where I expect rsync to be available at least via Cygwin and/or MinGW and/or GnuWin32, I recommend downloading the "Unix" runtimes; even Vim for Windows can source them with no problem. It's true that Notepad cannot display them correctly, but Wordpad can. — Tonymec 05:45, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
An alternative is to use an ftp mirroring tool (e.g. the fmirror tool ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/nir/ftp/utilities/fmirror/ [link dead, fmirror seems to be abandoned now]). To use this script, change into the vimXX/runtime directory directory and run this:
/usr/bin/fmirror -k \ -l $HOME/src/vimXX/runtime \ -p user@domain.com \ -r /pub/vim/runtime \ -s ftp.vim.org \ -S -V3
After having updated the runtime files change into the vimXX/src directory (or whatever version we're at) and do a "make installruntime".
Note, replace the vimXX by whatever version of vim you are using (e.g. 73 for Vim version 7.3)