diff --git a/3rd/vim/Makefile b/3rd/vim/Makefile
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+PLUGIN = fluxbox
+SOURCE = syntax/fluxapps.vim \
+		 syntax/fluxkeys.vim \
+		 syntax/fluxmenu.vim
+
+${PLUGIN}.vba: $(SOURCE) compile_vba.sh Makefile
+	sh ./compile_vba.sh $(SOURCE) > $@
+
+clean:
+	rm ${PLUGIN}.vba
diff --git a/3rd/vim/compile_vba.sh b/3rd/vim/compile_vba.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+#   about:
+#
+#   compile_vba.sh - create a vimball from the given files
+#
+#  author: mathias gumz <akira at fluxbox org>
+# licence: MIT
+#
+#   usage:
+#
+#     compile_vba.sh infile1 infile2 infile3
+#
+#     the vimball is dumped to stdout, to create a .vba.gz 
+#     just pipe the output to gzip
+
+cat <<EOF
+" Vimball Archiver compile_vba.sh of fluxbox
+UseVimball
+finish
+EOF
+
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]
+do
+    echo "${1}	[[[1"
+    # count line numbers via 'sed', out of 'wc' had to be
+    # treated anyway
+    sed -n '$=' $1
+    cat $1
+    shift
+done