Hello Vimmers! All of you probably know that vim-scripts.org mirrors all vim.org scripts on Github making them available as git repos. Scott, the author of... more »

Github has started refusing commits created by the scraper. Due to a missing zero in the committer date, there's a chance that all script repositories... more »

This is a quick description of two scraper stalls that happened in May. Earlier we discussed scraper stalls and how they prevent bugs from slipping... more »

As mentioned in the previous news posting, the scraper uses the RSS feed to discover which scripts have been updated. Unfortunately, for the past few... more »

Observant vim-scripts users noticed that recently the scraper was stalled for 3 weeks. The problems that caused this have been fixed and the scraper is... more »

vim-scripts.org will be down for 1/2 hour on Sunday night Pacific time. We will move the last non-script repository out of the GitHub vim-scripts account.... more »

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vim-scripts.org used to have one issue tracker for the website and another issue tracker for the scraping robot. Turns out this was needlessly confusing. The... more »

Some time around February 15, vim.org modified the way it presents the email adddresses of script authors. They just replaced @ and . with images,... more »

The previous attempt at eradicating bogus Apple files didn't quite get all of them. In addition to removing .DS_Store and ._DS_Store files, now we remove... more »

The scraper and its associated script and data files change with pretty much every scrape. They always bounce to the top of the newsfeed, drowning... more »

Apple software creates Desktop Services Store files to keep track of folder locations and icons. Since they're not needed in Vim scripts, the scraper removes... more »

Thanks to an imprecise regex in the hierarchy fix, the scraper didn't repair as many scripts as it could have. The following scripts have had... more »

A small refactoring allows the scraper to be a lot smarter about cleaning up hierarchies. What do I mean? Stuff like this: script-0.1/plugin/script.vim script-0.1/doc/script.txt That... more »

The scraper now suppresses common VCS dirs (.git, .hg, .bzr, and .svn). The following scripts were affected: 2890 - slurper.vim.stats 2960 - bisect.stats 3081 -... more »

Thanks to DataWraith for reporting that script 284's files weren't in the correct location. TeX scripts need to go in ftplugin/tex, but the scraper just... more »

A lot of plugins put files in autoload or after directories, which are themselves nested in other directories. This is perfectly valid, of course, but... more »

The scraper had a bug where it would mistakenly think that .vimrc files (or .vimanything) were .vim files and throw them into plugins. This missing... more »

Some scripts include a file whose name ends in _options.vim that contains example code that should be copied into your ~/.vimrc file. The scraper thought... more »

The scripts on vim.org are full of releases with the same version number as the previous release. The scraper used to drop these release because... more »

It's not easy to tell when a vimball is corrupt or didn't extract well. Quick rant: figuring out how to reliably extract vimballs has taken... more »

The scraper didn't recognize keymap plugins. The following 12 scripts have been regenerated with their keymap files in the correct locations: 0087 - plkeyb.vim 0656... more »

Script 790, python.vim--Vasiliev has been regenerated. It actually contained two different scripts -- one for python2 and one for python3, flip-flopping between them at every... more »

39 repositories have been fixed and regenerated. The scraper now auto-senses compiler plugins and correctly puts them in the /compiler directory. Thanks to Jacobo de... more »

37 repositories have been fixed and regenerated. Thanks to Marc Weber for pointing out that scala.vim was created with the wrong type. It is a... more »

Just a quick note: that the big red warning sign has been taken down. We're in beta! If there are no major problems for the... more »

All repositories are up except for two. The mirror should be ready for action! The two recalcitrant repos: 1040 - vimtabs.vim (support request) 2336 -... more »

UPDATE: GitHub has resolved the problem. http://vim-scripts.org is the best way to access this site now. vim-scripts is having some DNS teething issues. This article... more »

The first 1000 scripts have been uploaded. Things are moving at about one script every 15 seconds so all 3229 scripts should be up before... more »

A quick note on why I converted vim-scripts to a GitHub organization, and then converted it back. Let's start at the beginning... I'm fairly unhappy... more »

Major changes are afoot: we've deleted and re-created every repository on vim-scripts. The biggest reason we did this was to convert the email addresses in... more »