On 22/03/09 23:57, Edward Beach wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have an extremely long vimrc file that I would like to organize by
> splitting up into blocks of vim scripts; the easiest step seems to
> first put all of my vim maps and functions into my own script library.
>
> Now there seems to be many ways that I can go about doing this, namely
> runtime, source, or autoload, so which one is more appropriate in my
> case?
>
> Thanks!
> Edward
All three can be used, or any mixture of the three, depending on your
exact needs.
The autoload mechanism is for on-demand loading of functions which might
not be needed at all in a particular session.
The ":source" command is for single scripts with well-defined locations,
however it is longer to type than ":runtime" when the script is in one
of the 'runtimepath' trees.
The ":runtime" command allows searching at a given relative location in
all 'runtimepath' trees until the appropriate script is found, or, with
an exclamation mark, loading all scripts of the same name at the same
relative location. It is also more economical of keystrokes if the
script to be sourced is in one of the 'runtimepath' trees: for instance
runtime vimrc_example.vim
runtime delmenu.vim
etc., are shorter than the equivalentrather
source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/delmenu.vim
etc.
In addition, you can have user plugins, e.g. global plugins at
~/.vim/plugin/*.vim (under Unix) or ~/vimfiles/plugin/*.vim (under
Windows), for self-contained scripts which you want to run at every
startup, near the end of startup (unlike the vimrc which is sourced near
the begin of startup). If you want one particular global plugin of yours
to run after the standard ones, you can even place it in
~/{.vim|vimfiles}/after/plugin/.
Best regards,
Tony.
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