[arch-general] Where should system-wide vim files go?

János Illés ijanos at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 13:06:27 EDT 2011


On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 13:18, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> IMNSHO there are *very* few vim extensions that should ever be
> installed centrally.  I'd recommend every vim user to embrace
> GetLatestVimScripts[1] instead.  For the other stuff (read "broken vim
> extensions") I created vim-scripts-mgr[2].  :-)

I'm interested in the cons of having centrally installed vim plugins.
For me it seems these things you mentioned are basically doing a job
of a package manager (keeping track of, and updating files) so why not
use pacman for this purpose?

-- 
János


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