created by

Charles Campbell

script type

utility

description

[VIM VERSION 7.1 or 7.2 REQUIRED] The vimball plugin facilitates creating, extracting , and listing the contents of "vimball" archives (*.vba).  Vimball also records the files extracted with it and can remove them. CREATING A VIMBALL Vimball can create a "vimball" archive (*.vba) with the following command:    :[range]MkVimball[!] filename As an example:     plugin/something.vim     doc/something.txt     :%MkVimball something will create a "vimball.vba" archive.  Each line in the range processed by the MkVimball command simply describes where in the usual vim directory tree various files are.  I am now also providing a C source program that creates vimballs; see http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/src/index.html#MKVIMBALL . EXTRACTING FROM A VIMBALL Users of a vimball archive simply need to     $vim something.vba     :so % and the contents of the vimball will be extracted and placed into the proper directories, no matter where the user opened up the vimball.  Furthermore, the helptags command will be automatically and transparently used to make any doc/*.txt files' contents available by the Vim help system. PREVIEWING A VIMBALL Instead of immediately sourcing a vimball to extract its contents, one may use     :VimballList to preview the contents of the vimball archive. (alpha/beta version available at http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#VIMBALL)

install details

For vim 7.0, otherwise skip to step 2: 1. Remove all vestiges of any older version of vimball.  Typically, that means:     cd /usr/local/share/vim/vim70     rm plugin/vimball*.vim     rm autoload/vimball*.vim    Under Windows, the vim70 install point may vary. 2. I've decided that the vimball plugin itself should not expect that vimball is available to extract it.     Hence, it is now being distributed as vimball.tar.gz.  To unravel that:    * change directory to the directory holding the plugin/ and autoload/ directories where you want to install vimball.       It is probably best to install the new vimball in the distribution directory.    * gunzip vimball.tar.gz    * tar -oxvf vimball.tar    * (unix) chmod a+r autoload/vimball.vim doc/pi_vimball.txt plugin/vimballPlugin.vim Version 26 and later use fnameescape() for security reasons -- which in turn requires vim 7.1 with patch 299.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
vimball.tar.gz	33	2011-04-02	7.3	Charles Campbell	Added support for xz compression.  Supports *.vmb as well as *.vba for extraction; creates *.vmb files.  Bugfixes: zero-length file handling, a problem with fenc.
vimball.tar.gz	30	2009-12-29	7.0	Charles Campbell	RmVimball supports filenames that would otherwise be considered to have "magic" characters (ie. Abc[1].vba) MkVimball allows slashes in the filename
vimball.tar.gz	26	2008-05-30	7.0	Charles Campbell	For those users who don't yet have any plugins, vimball will now create a .vim (vimfiles) directory as necessary. Bugfix: (tnx Bill McCarthy) vimball wasn't updating files plugin/ to AsNeeded/ properly
vimball.tar.gz	25	2008-04-01	7.0	Charles Campbell	* changed vimball#Vimball() to recognize doc/*.??x as help files, too. * g:vimball_path_escape used by s:Path() to prevent certain characters from causing trouble
vimball.tar.gz	22	2007-05-08	7.0	Charles Campbell	uses setlocal instead of set during BufEnter
vimball.tar.gz	21	2007-01-03	7.0	Charles Campbell	bugfix release
vimball.tar.gz	18	2006-08-31	7.0	Charles Campbell	Vimballs now use folding to more easily display their contents when opened. Windows: \s are changed to /s (bugfix)
vimball.vba.gz	16	2006-06-27	7.0	Charles Campbell	* RmVimball implemented - allows one to remove files installed via a vimball * A. Mechylynk's idea to allow users to specify installation root paths implemented for UseVimball, MkVimball, and RmVimball (optional path argument) * (sssh -- bugfixes, too)
vimball.tar.gz	15	2006-06-13	7.0	Charles Campbell	bugfixes!
vimball.vba.gz	14	2006-05-26	7.0	Charles Campbell	Bugfix release: * exists("&acd") used to determine if the acd option exists * the |'acd'| option is not always defined * VimballList would create missing subdirectories that the vimball specified were needed.  Fixed. * moved all setting saving/restoration to a pair of functions.  Included some more settings in them which frequently cause trouble. * various changes to support the Windows prediliction for backslashes and spaces in file and directory names.

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