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Ahu Lee
Ahu Lee

Reputation: 399

Vim(Gvim) - How do I install a script on Windows 7?

I want to install this closetag.vim script:

http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=13

It says

place this file in your standard vim scripts directory and source it while editing the file you wish to close tags in.

And this is shown as an example:

:let g:closetag_html_style=1
:source ~/.vim/scripts/closetag.vim

1) What is my standard vim scripts directory on W7?

I have neither .vim nor scripts folder on my system. And if I have\am expected to create one (or ones) where should it (they) be placed? %ProgramFiles%\Vim\vim80 or %ProgramFiles%\Vim\vimfiles or maybe somewhere else?

1.1) Also, this might be a silly thing to ask about, but why do I keep seeing that tilde in path almost every time I read about Vim. Does it mean that Vim is used primarily by Mac/Linux people? Why is that?

2) What does it mean to source the script? Run a command like this let g:closetag_html_style=1 in command mode in Vim?

Btw what does style=1 mean here?

And if I want it to work by default for all html\xhtml\xml files, what do I do? Put this command to _vimrc file?

Thank you so much!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 173

Answers (1)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196476

You could find the answers to all your questions just by reading the plugin description carefully. Unfortunately, it is both poorly written and factually incorrect.

  1. What is my standard vim scripts directory on W7?

    On Windows, you are supposed to put custom and third-party scripts in various places under:

    C:\Users\username\vimfiles\

    But that's not what the author means by "standard vim scripts directory". What he is referring to is this:

    C:\Users\username\vimfiles\scripts\

    which is not standard at all.

    Also, this might be a silly thing to ask about, but why do I keep seeing that tilde in path almost every time I read about Vim. Does it mean that Vim is used primarily by Mac/Linux people? Why is that?

    Yes, Vim is primarily used by UNIX-like systems users. Because of history.

  2. What does it mean to source the script? Run a command like this let g:closetag_html_style=1 in command mode in Vim?

    No. Read your question again.

  3. Btw what does style=1 mean here?

    Nothing.

    But :let g:closetag_html_style=1 means "set the g:closetag_html_style option to true".

  4. And if I want it to work by default for all html\xhtml\xml files, what do I do? Put this command to _vimrc file?

    No. This is explained on the plugin's page:

    For greater convenience, load this script in an autocommand: 

    :au Filetype html,xml,xsl source ~/.vim/scripts/closetag.vim

    Which is wrong on many levels.

Here is what you actually have to do to use that script:

  1. Save the closetag.vim script to the following location:

    C:\Users\username\vimfiles\scripts\closetag.vim

    Create vimfiles\ and/or vimfiles\scripts\ if they don't exist.

  2. Add the lines below to C:\Users\username\_vimrc:

    augroup closetag
    autocmd!
    autocmd Filetype html,xhtml,xml,xsl runtime scripts/closetag.vim
augroup END
let g:closetag_html_style = 1

Reference:

:help startup
:help :source
:help :runtime
:help :let
:help autocommand

Upvotes: 1

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