Install a vimball from the command line.
- by Robert Massaioli
As this post points out you can install Vimballs using the normal:
vim somevimball.vba
:so %
:q
But if you want to install a from the command line how do you do it? I ran a 'man vim' and it seems like the best "from source install" option was the '-S' option so I tried to install haskellmode with it:
wget 'http://projects.haskell.org/haskellmode-vim/vimfiles/haskellmode-20090430.vba'
vim -S haskellmode-20090430.vba
and that failed to work. It gave me the following error:
Error detected while processing function vimball#Vimball:
line 10:
(Vimball) The current file does not appear to be a Vimball!
press ENTER or type command to continue
It should be noted that using the first method I was able to successfully install the vimball. I have tried the second method on a few other vimballs and it has failed every time. Is there a way to install a vimball from the command line? It seems like a useful sort of task.
Oh, and I am running the following version of vim:
Version: 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu3
Thanks.
