Re: FAQ clarification: multiple user installation?

[Steve H. <dig...@mi...>]

From: Christoph Haas, May 14, 2004 4:45 PM
> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:12:00AM -0400, Steve Hall wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm... I guess we don't really have a system user config file.
> > cream-user currently will be loaded at $CREAM, but only if a $HOME
> > location isn't found. See Cream_load_user() at the top of
> > cream-lib.)
> > 
> > I suppose loading a system $CREAM/cream-user *in addition to* the
> > user file would mimick Vim's method of loading a system vimrc and
> > a user vimrc. 
> > 
> > Anybody have any ideas about this?
> 
> I don't know if this is for you. But in my Debian package I handle
> the central installation this way:
> 
> a.) The creamrc file is put into /usr/share/vim/cream/vimrc.
> b.) When starting cream (I have written a wrapper script) I set
> 	VIMINIT="source /usr/share/vim/cream/creamrc"
> 	export VIMINIT
> c.) I create $HOME/.cream-user/views and $HOME/.cream-user/spelldicts
> d.) Then I run vim, gvim or kvim...

Christoph, I hope you find Cream 0.29 makes all this obsolete and much
simpler. All you have to do now is:

  gvim -U NONE -u "\$VIMRUNTIME/cream/creamrc" "$@"

a.)  =>  can really be anywhere, named anything
b.)  =>  external variable is no longer necessary
c.)  =>  all user directories are now verified and created
         automatically (well, except Elias' bug, now fixed in CVS. :)
d.)  =>  if you drop this line into an executable "cream" on path, the
         user can run both Vim and Vim/Cream at the same time!


> You could try to check if another creamrc exists for the user and
> also 'source' it in VIMINIT=... I'm not sure whether this is what
> you want.

I think the first is a good option and it's only a few more lines of
script.


> Just my $0.02.

Thanks for the feedback.



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