Bram, can you please include the following change in the next runtime update?
I have had now already twice the case¹ that a user of vim-airline has been using the plugin directory for cloning packages. That made the plugin break miserably. So put a note into the standard documentation that this is a bad idea. ¹ see: https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline/issues/1712 https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline/issues/1440 diff --git a/runtime/doc/options.txt b/runtime/doc/options.txt index d5acf667a..d4b9fa488 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/options.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/options.txt @@ -6489,6 +6489,10 @@ A jump table for the options with a short description can be found at |Q_op|. And any other file searched for with the |:runtime| command. + Note: Do NOT use the plugin/ directory for cloning Vim plugins into it + using e.g. Vundle or Plug or manually git cloning into it. This will most + likely break the plugin. Use the pack/ (see |packages|) directory for that. + The defaults for most systems are setup to search five locations: 1. In your home directory, for your personal preferences. 2. In a system-wide Vim directory, for preferences from the system Best, Christian -- Die Menschen achten den, der sie verachtet. -- Honoré de Balzac -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
