Question

I recently installed cream onto a windows 7 laptop. I was installing the rails.vim plugin when tried to issue the :helptags ~/vim/docs command so I can have the rails helpfiles available.

I have since discovered that w7 doesn’t allow user privileges in the program files directory so I haven’t been able to add the helptags or use edit -> startup settings to change my vimfiles.

I found this thread here Allow access permission to write in Program Files of Windows 7 and a few websites referring to “ultimate windows tweaker” . Has anyone without third party software been able to get access rights for vim or cream on win7?

Answer 1

There is a how-to here Take ownership Win 7 on how to grant user access to a folder and subfolders, which will allow me to set the ~/vim folder and subs to have write access.