Vimball Vimball is a vim-based archiver that builds, extracts, and previews.
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Vimball is a vim-based archiver that builds, extracts, and previews. Vimball is a vim-based archiver that builds, extracts, and previews.The vimball plugin facilitates creating, extracting , and listing the contents of "vimball" archives (*.vba).CREATING A VIMBALLVimball can create a "vimball" archive (*.vba) with the following command: :MkVimball filenameAs an example: plugin/something.vim doc/something.txt :%MkVimball somethingwill 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.EXTRACTING FROM A VIMBALLUsers 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 VIMBALLInstead of immediately sourcing a vimball to extract its contents, one may use :VimballListto preview the contents of the vimball archive.Requirements:· VimINSTALLATION: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*.vim2. 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.gztar -oxvf vimball.tarchmod a+r autoload/vimball.vim doc/pi_vimball.txt plugin/vimballPlugin.vim

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