[arch-general] Fwd: Re: vim 7.2.245-1

[Jozsef]

>      ----- Original Message -----
> 
>      From: Aaron Griffin
> 
>      Sent: 09/22/09 07:10 pm
> 
>      To: General Discusson about Arch Linux
> 
>      Subject: Re: [arch-general] vim 7.2.245-1
> 
> 
>      On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Jozsef wrote:
>      >> I never used runtimepath before and everything worked fine.
>      You shouldn't have to. It is set by default by vim. In a running vim
>      instance do
>      :echo &runtimepath
>      >> And I don't have a "after" directory in /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/
>      at the moment. Is it something I should create by myself?
>      It doesn't need to exist. And it's certainly useless if empty. Only
>      create it if you need it.
>      > And all of that directories inside of /usr/share/vim/ are owned by
>      root. It could be a reason why the plugins don't work if I copy them
>      to vimfiles/plugins or vimfiles/after
>      > I'm not running vim as root, why should I do that?
>      Owned by root does not mean that you can't READ the files. Vim
>      doesn't
>      need to do anything except read them, and it can.
>      I guess I'm confused as to where you installed your plugins. It's
>      typically best to install them in ~/.vim/ rather than system wide
> 
> 
>    If the Vim 7.2.245-1 will work the same as my previous version, in case
>    if I create that "after" directory and copy everything from ~/.vim into
>    it, I would be happy to do it. In that case everything should work
>    without setting runtimepath in ~/.vimrc
> 
>    But I'm not sure that's the case. Will try and let you know.
> 
>    I installed all my plugins in ~/.vim directory. But as I said earlier,
>    non of my plugins worked with Vim 7.2.245-1 before I added "set
>    runtimepath..." in ~/.vimrc
> 
>    That's why I tried first to copy my plugins in /usr/share/vim and
>    /usr/share/vim/vimfiles and other places. But nothing helped. I didn't
>    knew about "after" directory, that's why I haven't tried that yet.
> 

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