On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com> wrote:
The vim runtime that can be retrieved via rsync is outdated.
Some of the patches modify the runtime, and some of these changes (e.g. 394) are lost when the runtime is overwritten with the runtime from rsync.
Not using the runtime from rsync at all also misses some updates.
Any thoughts on how to solve this? One option would be to build vim from Mercurial (http://vim.googlecode.com).
Just in case people think this is a theoretical problem no one cares about ... solving this would give us tar.xz support that comes with latest version of gzip plugin : http://code.google.com/p/vim/source/browse/runtime/plugin/gzip.vim Never opened a package in vim ? it's awesome :p Anyway, this is just an example, we are also missing the latest & greatest changes in many runtime files. Well not me, as I use vim-hg, and I would recommend other vim users to do the same. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33422