Make automatic installation script in wiki tips compatible to windows

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vim
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documentation

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Open the wiki's Tips page at the Automatic installation section and compare the current script with the Windows-compatible version in the issue. Verify the Vim and Neovim path cases and the Windows curl invocation, then update the wiki example and confirm the instructions render correctly.

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Description

Current automatic installation script in wiki is not compatible with Windows, mostly due to these two problems:

  1. autoload should be in ~/vimfiles instead of ~/.vim on Windows.
  2. The cURL comes with Windows (namely C:/Windows/System32/curl.exe) and cmd.exe/PowerShell will not expand ~ with ! invocation.

I wrote a compatible version, tested to solve these two problems, making it compatible with Windows:

let data_dir = has('nvim') ? stdpath('data') . '/site' : has('win32') ? '~/vimfiles' : '~/.vim'
if empty(glob(data_dir . '/autoload/plug.vim'))
  silent execute '!curl -fLo '.fnamemodify(data_dir.'/autoload/plug.vim', ':p:S').' --create-dirs  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'
  autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall --sync | source $MYVIMRC
endif

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If we get this updated to wiki, we can benefit the users.

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