How to download Vim script on the command-line?

Posted by HaiYuan Zhang on Super User See other posts from Super User or by HaiYuan Zhang
Published on 2010-03-10T22:07:28Z Indexed on 2012/11/24 5:09 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 275

Filed under:
|

Whenever I want to install a new Vim script on the Linux server I'm working on, my typical workflow is as the following:

  1. surf the plugin's homepage in Vim online using FireXXXX
  2. download a right version of the plugin to my laptop by click some highlighted link
  3. upload the downloaded plugin from my laptop to Linux server using WinSCP

which is really inconvenient. I don't know what is the magic behind this: I mean for the same hyperlink I click it in web browser. I can let you download it but use Wget plus the hyperlink in Linux command-line will end up with nothing but an error indication. Hyperlink in the web browser. Otherwise I can get the link in web browser and then use Wget or some similar tool to actually do the downloding.

I try new cool Vim scripts quite ofte , so you can imagine my dismay when I have to repeat the tedious action all the time. What are some tips which can let me download the Vim scripts in a more "professional" way?


Post edit:

My problem is not find a tool like Wget or cURL. The problem I met is quite specific; to use these tools to download a Vim script. Let's take http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=30 as an example.

It's the normal place where one can get the script, at least for me. But I can't find an working URL from this page that can feed to Wget.

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about vim

Related posts about download