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

[Jozsef]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Jozsef wrote:

> >      ----- 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.
> > 

As I thought. If I remove runtimepath and copy everything from ~/.vim to /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after
Nothing is working.

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