Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

[Erik Falor]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:43:59PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Rick Patterson!

> There's tons of more useful editors for Windows.

I heartily disagree with that statement.

I'm not altogether convinced that Cygwin's Vim _needs_ to include the
Perl interface, but then again, I usually have Perl installed anyway,
so the extra HD space is comprised of stuff I need.

If all one needs is an up-to-date build of Vim on a Windows box, I
recommend looking at Cream - which is a dumbed-down Vim for noobs.
The maintainer of this project also provides pre-packaged Windows
builds of vanilla Vim that are more up-to-date than what can be had
from www.vim.org.  This will set you back a few tens of megabytes.

http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html

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Erik Falor                                       http://unnovative.net
Registered Linux User #445632                  http://linuxcounter.net
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