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

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Auguste Pop <auguste at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I installed vim-peaksea from the AUR the other day and couldn't use
>> it, because it installed in /usr/share/vim/colors/peaksea.vim. This
>> seems a fairly standard directory, but its not in runtimepath on a
>> fresh install (AFAIK).
>>
>> Checked out some other vim colour-themes on the AUR, the majority seem
>> to install to the same location. Some choose /usr/share/vim/vim**
>> instead, but that breaks when vim updates. Perhaps
>> /usr/share/vim/vimfiles makes more sense (only found one PKGBUILD
>> using that so far).
>>
>> So what's the 'correct' behaviour? The vim split package doesn't seem
>> to do any patches affecting runtimepath, so probably I assume
>> runtimepath is an upstream default. In that case, should AUR packages
>> correct their location?
>>
>> Posting to arch-general because it overlaps and isn't solely an AUR issue.
>>
>
> plugins installed into $VIM/vimfiles works. i thought that's the
> correct place for plugins.
> /usr/share/vim/vimXX directory should only be used by vim packages
> that updates along with vim.
> that's my understanding of the vim directories.
>
I guess I'll go bug some AUR packages now, most of them just install
in $VIM (which isn't sourced by default where $VIM/vimfiles is in Arch
packages).