Tony, thanks a lot for your reply. I understand it is not strictly a MacVim question, but I am trying to use them in MacVim and I would like to use MacVim (instead of TextMate btw) on my Mac and not… Vim. Once again thanks a lot for you great answer, it helped me a lot.
On Aug 18, 6:03 am, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 9, 2:46 am, björn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > 2009/8/9 caruso_g: > > > > I am trying to install some plugins into MacVim, I created the folder > > > ~/.vim and I put the plugin into it. > > > But they do not load. > > > More, I also saw that plugins have the same folders structures, so I > > > guessed I had just to copy their content into the same folder in > > > the .vim folder but I got a tags file that was just duplicated into > > > two different plugins, had I to join their contents? > > > Thank to everyone that can help me, it seems really difficult to > > > install plugins in Vim even if all devs just say "unpack it into > > > your .vim folder" it seems not working for me. > > > This is not a MacVim specific question. Try the vim-use mailing list > > and you'll be certain to get all the answers you need. > > > Björn > > This is indeed not a MacVim-specific question. It has, however, an > answer. > > There are several kinds of plugins: > - Global plugins, sourced once at every startup, which can have any > valid filename (ending in .vim). User-specific ones go (on Unix or > MacOsX) in ~/.vim/plugin/ or ~/.vim/after/plugin/. Here and everywhere > below, replace ~/.vim/ by $VIM/vimfiles/ for system-wide scripts. > - Filetype-plugins: they go in ~/.vim/ftplugin/ or ~/.vim/ftplugin/ > and their basename (the name without the .vim extension) must be > identical to the concerned 'filetype'. > - Syntax plugins: they go in ~/.vim/syntax/ or ~/.vim/after/syntax and > their basename must be the same as the 'syntax' name. > - Indent plugins (in ~/.vim/indent/ or ~/.vim/after/indent/) whose > basename is, again, same as the 'filetype'. > - Other scripts (such as keymaps, colorschemes, compiler scripts, > etc.) are usually not called plugins but they each have their own > subdirectories. Only "general" scripts which don't run in families > (e.g. filetype.vim) are put straight into $VIMRUNTIME/ (but not by > you), $VIM/vimfiles/ or ~/.vim/. > > See also > :help 'runtimepath' > :help after-directory > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > Mustgo, n.: > Any item of food that has been sitting in the refrigerator so > long it has become a science project. > -- Sniglets, "Rich Hall & Friends" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
