Versions of VIM included with Intrepid and Leopard at least appear

to handle symlinks just fine, so reword the instructions in the
README accordingly.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@62719 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

diff --git a/utils/vim/README b/utils/vim/README
index ad10fee0be589f05a25ddeb668839f815e655d36..d999788809c17ba90dddffe5ddba89b757310e1b 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/vim/README
+++ b/utils/vim/README
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ These are syntax highlighting files for the VIM editor. Included are:
 
 * llvm.vim
 
-  Syntax highlighting mode for LLVM assembly files. To use, COPY `llvm.vim' to
+  Syntax highlighting mode for LLVM assembly files. To use, copy `llvm.vim' to
   ~/.vim/syntax and add this code to your ~/.vimrc :
 
   augroup filetype
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ These are syntax highlighting files for the VIM editor. Included are:
 
 * tablegen.vim
 
-  Syntax highlighting mode for TableGen description files. To use, COPY
+  Syntax highlighting mode for TableGen description files. To use, copy
   `tablegen.vim' to ~/.vim/syntax and add this code to your ~/.vimrc :
 
   augroup filetype
@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@ These are syntax highlighting files for the VIM editor. Included are:
   augroup END
 
 
-IMPORTANT: Making symlinks from ~/.vim/syntax/... to the syntax files in your
-LLVM source tree does not work, you DO need to copy the files directly.
+If you prefer, instead of making copies you can make symlinks from
+~/.vim/syntax/... to the syntax files in your LLVM source tree. Apparently
+did not work with older versions of vim however, so if this doesn't work
+you may need to make actual copies of the files.
 
-However, if you do not already have a ~/.vim/syntax/ directory, simply
-symlinking it to llvm/utils/vim will do the trick nicely, and you can stay
-up-to-date with CVS.
+Another option, if you do not already have a ~/.vim/syntax directory, is
+to symlink ~/.vim/syntax itself to llvm/utils/vim .
 
 Note: If you notice missing or incorrect syntax highlighting, please contact
 <llvmbugs [at] cs.uiuc.edu>; if you wish to provide a patch to improve the