[aur-general] An idea for vim scripts/plugins

[Daniel J Griffiths]

On 05/10/2009 11:31 AM, Andrei Thorp wrote:
> Sounds like a nifty idea.
>
> -AT
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>   
>> Being a Vim user and having just moved to Arch I noticed that most (all?)
>> packages for Vim plugins install system wide.  This may not be desirable
>> since
>> it means all users get all the plugins, and not using pacman for plugins
>> puts
>> the burden of keeping up-to-date on the individual users.
>>
>> So, inspired by Debian's vim-additions-manager, I came up with a (fairly)
>> light-weight solution: vim-scripts-mgr[1].  It looks for available Vim
>> plugins
>> in `/usr/share/vim-scripts` (one directory per plugin) and can install and
>> uninstall individual plugins by adding symbolic links in ~/.vim for a user.
>>
>> I've already uploaded two Vim plugins that make use of it, Align[2] and
>> haskellmode[3].
>>
>> I'd be thrilled if others who package Vim plugins would consider using it.
>>
>> /M
>>
>> [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26318
>> [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26319
>> [3]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26343
>>
>> --
>> Magnus Therning                        (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4)
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>>
>>
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What the hell... what's with the crazy font??