On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias@justdreams.de> wrote:
There is a /usr/share/vim folder and inside of it /plugin, /vim72 and /vimfiles I tried to copy my files from ~/.vim to all of that places and nothing worked. Don't know what to try else.
We try to be more compliant with upstream vim: the out of the box path consists of /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after and /usr/share/vim/vim72, where the vimfiles/after one is the more desireable to use because it does not contain version information.
The plugins bundled with Archlinux now use /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after and they have been recompiled for that. The whole point of that was, that we never ever have to set the runtimepath again.
Hrrm, I don't know if we should be using the 'after' dir for default plugins installed by pacman. It seem like these actually belong in /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/. The after directory has a special purpose, and none of the plugins I can think of seem to fit that purpose. At least, it doesn't seem valid to use the after dir as a general rule.