added little helper to create vimballs

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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