Hello vimmers: I am one of the users who want the default file explorer to be explorer.vim in Vim 6.x rather than netrw. And from line 78 of pi_netrw.txt I got the following:
> You can avoid loading this plugin by setting the "loaded_netrw" variable > in your <.vimrc> file: > > :let loaded_netrw = 1 In Vim 7.0, this works, I add the above into .vimrc and put the explorer.vim of Vim 6.4 into ~/.vim/plugin and then :Explore launchs the old explorer instead. However, in Vim 7.1 this does not work, when I run :Explore it reports netrw#Explore not found. My explorer.vim does not launch. Done some research and I found that the $VIMRUNTIME/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim now use the loaded_netrwPlugin variable. So I should use the following in my .vimrc to effectively disable the netrw plugin: :let loaded_netrw = 1 :let loaded_netrwPlugin = 1 I don't want to argue now that netrw should be a new plugin instead of replace the existing explorer.vim. But if the new version of netrwPlugin in Vim 7.1 silently breaks the explorer.vim, should it be documented? My point is : The following should be added to line 81 of pi_netrw.txt version 2007 May 08. :let loaded_netrwPlugin = 1 If DrChip thinks the document should not change, then the netrwPlugin might have to be changed to still recognize the "loaded_netrw" variable. HTH -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606
