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This is useful when you want to upgrade to the latest version of Vim but want the ability to easily switch back to an old version. I create a symbolic link called 'current' in my $VIM directory to whichever is my current install of Vim. You can create symbolic links to directories on NTFS with the linkd utility in the resource kit:
 
This is useful when you want to upgrade to the latest version of Vim but want the ability to easily switch back to an old version. I create a symbolic link called 'current' in my $VIM directory to whichever is my current install of Vim. You can create symbolic links to directories on NTFS with the linkd utility in the resource kit:
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C:\Program Files\Vim>linkd current vim70c
 
C:\Program Files\Vim>linkd current vim70c
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