Plugins with % in the name causes curl to fail to download them

[pluong10]

The plugin Mark%2666, for example, VAM will modify the URL to ...Mark%2666... As a result, CURL don't know how to download it, and so fails to install.

BTW, I'm using Windows.

[MarcWeber]

First % is only the storage location, not the download url.

If windows doesn't like % (because it has special meaning?) we have to fix the quoting.
As a quick fix you can get all plugins by http://vam.mawercer.de/.

Something like this tells VAM to replace % by _:

fun MyPluginDirFromName(name)
  let dir = vam#DefaultPluginDirFromName
  return substitute(dir,'%','_', 'g')
endf
let g:vim_addon_manager['plugin_dir_by_name'] = 'MyPluginDirFromName'

If you want to help us find the correct way to quote '%' signs have a look at the function

 fun! vam#utils#Download(url, targetFile)

which is using RunInShell which calls ShellDSL

I may be able to provide a fix within 4 days or so if I can reproduce the issue.

[marcusm]

I had this issue today with javascript%2083 plugin. On windows of course. I retrieved the plugins from the http://vam.mawercer.de/ link, but I still get the error when starting vim. My temporary workaround was to copy the plugin files into the javascript/%2083 directory. A better fix would be nice. Is anyone working on one already?

[MarcWeber]

I've fixed it by adding the hack above to the downloader when choosing target Windows. Please note that there was a small bug. Of course the line should have been:

let dir = vam#DefaultPluginDirFromName(a:name)