If you are upgrading from a prior version (before 3.0) this is also the recommended installation.

The easiest way to install spf13-vim is to use our automatic installer by simply copying and pasting the following line into a terminal. This will install spf13-vim and backup your existing vim configuration.

Installing on Windows

On Windows and *nix Git and Curl are required.

Installing dependencies

Install msysgit

After installation try running git --version within command prompt (press Win-R, type cmd , press Enter) to make sure all good:

C:\> git --version git version 1.7.4.msysgit.0

Setup Curl

Instructions blatently copied from vundle readme Installing Curl on Windows is easy as Curl is bundled with msysgit! But before it can be used with Vundle it's required make curl run in command prompt. The easiest way is to create curl.cmd with this content

@rem Do not use "echo off" to not affect any child calls. @setlocal @rem Get the absolute path to the parent directory, which is assumed to be the @rem Git installation root. @for /F "delims=" %%I in ("%~dp0..") do @set git_install_root=%%~fI @set PATH=%git_install_root%\bin;%git_install_root%\mingw\bin;%PATH% @if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% @if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%USERPROFILE% @curl.exe %*

And copy it to C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\curl.cmd , assuming msysgit was installed to c:\Program Files\Git

to verify all good, run:

C:\> curl --version curl 7.21.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: Largefile NTLM SSL SSPI libz

Installing spf13-vim on Windows

The easiest way is to download and run the spf13-vim-windows-install.cmd file.