Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Can I clone just the vimfiles directory?

[Jeremy C. <jlc...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Till Maas <ope...@ti...> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 02:37:30PM -0500, Ted Pavlic wrote:
>
>> So it's possible in the future (near future?) the vim-latex repo will
>> look very different and it may be possible to do more exciting things
>
> Yes, I hope to get to this in the near future.
>
>> which will copy any new vim-latex/vimfiles changes into ~/.vim.
>
> Minimal testing showed me that it is also possible to clone the git
> repository somewhere outside the vim-directory and symlink to the
> vimfiles subdirectory inside the git repository from ~/.vim:
>
> $ cd $HOME
> $ git clone git://vim-latex.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/vim-latex/vim-latex
> $ mv .vim .vim_old
> $ ln -s vim-latex/vimfiles/ .vim

This works fine unless I have other customization files (which I do)
which reside in .vim.

Thanks again,
Jeremy