vam on windows (with msysgit) has side effects when installing addons

[suxpert]

I'm using msysgit (portable version) on windows, because it provides lots utilities such as wget, curl, uzip et al, using vam under windows is not so difficult.

But there's one big different between msysgit and the linux version: vam use a command git clone --help somewhere when installing, but msysgit use html files for help rather than print to the console, so anytime vam installs a plugin, windows will open up a browser for the help page, it really feels bad :(

So if possible, please consider a different command rather than git clone --help in a new version of vam. :)

BTW vam is great! (If not mention those confusing names and long folder names ^_^ )

[MarcWeber]

long names can be adjusted, see plugin_dir_by_name setting. Thanks for contributing. Also consider contributing to http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/index.html and make sure you know about http://vam.mawercer.de/. This service could be extended so that only curl would be required on windows.

[ZyX-I]

It may not be a proper fix: git help help contains options --man, --web, --info, thus proper fix may be using git help clone --man. Need a person with msys git to find out what happens in case git help --man clone is used.

[suxpert]

@ZyX-I D:>git help --man clone warning: failed to exec 'man': No such file or directory fatal: no man viewer handled the request

[ZyX-I]

Thanks. I guess replacing --man with --info also does not work, does it?

[suxpert]

yep, msysgit doesn't provide man or info, although msys does.