Awesome thanks! I'd definitely be interested in helping maintain this plugin. I can't speak for Kevin but I assume he would be as well. On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 20:21 Ted kremenek <kreme...@apple.com> wrote:
> Hi Keith, > > This makes complete sense. I can see why cloning a small self-contained > repository would be ideal for plugin managers. > > I'll talk about this with the core team, but I think this seems like a > reasonable direction. > > Incidentally, we would need one (or more) active maintainers for the vim > plugin. Dmitri Gribenko was the one on Apple's Swift team most actively > using vim, but I'd also be happy with somebody outside of Apple being the > custodian of this plugin. > > Ted > > On Jan 3, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Keith Smiley <keithbsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Right there are 2 facets to the file hierarchy. The one covered in [2] is > the > standard structure vim expects when loading plugins. The need to be in a > separate repo is for vim plugin managers. > > The most popular plugin managers[0][1][2] work by either you cloning, or > specifying a repo containing a plugin to load. This means you would use > something like `apple/swift.vim` in the case of the plugin I'm hoping for. > The > plugin managers then add that cloned directory to vim's runtime path where > it > looks for the structure covered in [2] to be able to load the correct > plugin > files. If that structure doesn't exist at the root of the repo, it has no > effect. Some of the plugin managers[2] do have the ability to specify the > subdirectory of a repo, but even if that was something we were relying on, > having to clone the entire `apple/swift` repo for less than ~10 small > files is > a lot of overhead. > > Let me know if I need to elaborate more. > > Thanks! > > [0]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen > [1]: https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim > [2]: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug > > -- > Keith Smiley > >> >> >> On 01/02, Ted kremenek wrote: >> > Hi Keith, >> > >> > I'm not a vim user, so I'm not certain how the nesting of the vim >> support in the main repository is a problem. I looked at [2] and noticed a >> requirement for a folder layout, but I didn't see anything obvious to >> indicate that this would benefit from being in a separate repository. Can >> you elucidate a bit more for my benefit? Note that I'm not saying there is >> a benefit; I'm just lacking some context here to understand why a separate >> repository is needed. If there is a clear benefit, this is something I'd >> happily support and discuss with the rest of the Swift Core members. >> > >> > Ted >> > >> > > On Dec 31, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Keith Smiley via swift-dev < >> swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: >> > > >> > > Hey all, >> > > >> > > When swift was open sourced a few of us noticed that there was some >> existing >> > > vim highlighting support[0]. While it sounds like what's there now >> hasn't been >> > > kept up to date for a while[1], that brought up the question if there >> could >> > > ever be a dedicated repository for vim support under the apple github >> > > organization. >> > > >> > > Many vim plugin managers expect a specific folder structure[2] in >> order to >> > > work correctly. So the current nesting of the vim support in the main >> repo >> > > isn't ideal. I think it would be hugely beneficial to the members of >> the >> > > community who would prefer to use vim over any other editor, for >> there to be a >> > > first party repo similar to rust's[3]. >> > > >> > > I'm not particularly suggesting that this plugin would be supported >> by the >> > > swift core team. As there are at least a few community swift vim >> plugins >> > > now[4][5] I would hope that as a community we would be willing and >> able to >> > > support this plguin. Personally I would love to be part of a unified >> effort >> > > towards better vim support for Swift! >> > > >> > > >> > > Thoughts? Thanks! >> > > >> > > >> > > [0]: https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/utils/vim >> > > [1]: https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/672493376856391681 >> > > [2]: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/writing-vim-syntax-plugins >> > > [3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.vim >> > > [4]: https://github.com/keith/swift.vim >> > > [5]: https://github.com/kballard/vim-swift >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Keith Smiley >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > swift-dev mailing list >> > > swift-dev@swift.org >> > > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev >> > >
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