On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx> 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 The vim runtime that can be retrieved via rsync is outdated.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
