[arch-general] vim 7.2.245-1

Jozsef jozefk at gmx.com
Mon Sep 21 23:32:52 EDT 2009


On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Jozsef wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Tobias Kieslich wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hrrm, I don't know if we should be using the 'after' dir for default
> > > plugins installed by pacman. It seem like these actually belong in
> > > /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/. The after directory has a special
> > > purpose, and none of the plugins I can think of seem to fit that
> > > purpose. At least, it doesn't seem valid to use the after dir as a
> > > general rule.
> > That might actually be the case, that we put them into plugin instead of
> > after. And AFAIR that works out of the box as well.
> > 
> > 	-T
> 
> I never used runtimepath before and everything worked fine.
> 
> And I don't have a "after" directory in /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ at the moment. Is it something I should create by myself?
> 
> At least I'm happy my vim is working the same as before. Hope there will be always some kind of workaround for this issue. Or at least some tutorial/manual how to fix things once and for always.
> 

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?

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