On 7 March 2016, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 3:18:06 PM UTC-6, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Lcd wrote:
> >
> > > Placing a colour scheme like this should work, but it doesn't:
> > >
> > > $VIM/vimfiles/pack/my/ever/molokai/colors/molokai.vim
> > >
> > > The reason it doesn't work is that mandatory plugins are
> > > sourced after vimrc, and thus the new scheme can't be set from
> > > vimrc.
> > >
> > > To make it work, it can be made optional:
> > >
> > > $VIM/vimfiles/pack/my/opt/molokai/colors/molokai.vim
> > >
> > > and then it can be forced to load early with a packadd:
> > >
> > > packadd molokai
> > > colorscheme molokai
> > >
> >
> > The simplest solution (for the user) would be that :colorscheme also
> > finds matches in the "ever" directory under 'packpath'.
> >
>
> I like this idea. To me :colorscheme already means "find the
> colors/schemename.vim file in my runtime and source it". I think
> searching packages as well just makes sense for colorscheme. Possibly
> :runtime! as well but that's more tricky and we can already :packadd
> before using :runtime.
As it is now, :packadd works only with optional packages.
> > That's not a generic solution though. Perhaps we need
> > ":packaddever". Or ":packadd EVER".
> >
>
> Do we need a generic solution?
We probably do. There are other similar situations to consider:
autoload, after, ftplugin, syntax, indent, compilers, and probably
others I don't remember rigt now. Not only we'd need a special case for
each of those, but loading them before the "main" file can bomb out.
> Normal plugins have never worked that way.
Until recently "normal" plugins were always handled by plugin
managers.
/lcd
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