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Created September 15, 2010 05:30
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Script to install Vim plugin from its development source
#! /bin/bash
if [[ -z $1 ]]
then
if [[ -z $VIMRUNTIME ]]
then
VIMRUNTIME=$HOME/.vim
fi
else
VIMRUNTIME="$1"
fi
echo "Installing to: $VIMRUNTIME ..."
for dir in after autoload colors compiler doc ftdetect ftplugin indent plugin syntax
do
if [[ -d $dir ]]
then
CMD="cp -r $dir/* $VIMRUNTIME/$dir/"
echo " $CMD"
$CMD || exit
fi
done
echo "Updating help tags ..."
cd $VIMRUNTIME/doc && vim -c 'helptags . | :q'
echo "Done: plugin installed".
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tub78 commented Nov 4, 2010

This is handy. You might want to add "ftdetect" and "indent" to the list of directories, for this to work for all plugins ...
Thx.

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Thanks. Done!

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gmarik commented Nov 6, 2010

Hey!
You might like https://github.com/gmarik/vundle ! )

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