On 30/09/09 21:00, Jason Axelson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:12 PM, caruso_g<[email protected]> wrote:
>> This is the error that everyone do.
>> I also asked about how to install plugins since it is not clear and
>> all plugin developers are sure we (=newbies) already know that the
>> folder structure inside a plugin folder is "just a placeholder" (of
>> the folder structure one have to create in side .vim) to let the user
>> identify which file goes in which folder inside .vim
>
> I would prefer it if we could link a standard set of install
> instructions on all vim plugins (ie, the plugin developers don't
> include the link themselves).
>
> Jason
The directories inside an archive are not placeholders: you don't
install the files one by one, you tell the unpacker software to copy the
whole structure into whatever directory you tell it to -- in this case
one of ~/.vim, ~/vimfiles or $VIM/vimfiles, depending on OS and use case
-- so the names of any directories inside the archive have to match what
Vim expects.
Where one should place which file is outlined at ":help 'runtimepath'";
in addition, the _user_ should be aware that whenever one or more
helpfiles have been installed, the ":helptags" command (q.v.) should be
run on their directory (which will be the /doc subdirectory of some
directory named in 'runtimepath'). If you unpack a Vimball (see below)
the Vimball plugin will run :helptags as part of the unpacking process.
Dr. Chip's Vimball plugin, which nowadays is part of standard Vim 7
distributions, provides a way of packing Vim runtime files in such way
that they will be installed at the right place (assuming, of course,
that they were correctly placed when the maintainer created the
Vimball): see ":help pi_vimball.txt". Like the tar utility, the Vimball
plugin only packages the files, it does not compress them, and like it,
you can follow it by a gzip or bzip2 run when packing, or precede it by
gunzip or bunzip2 when unpacking; if you have the right software
installed, Vim can even handle the decompression transparently on arrival.
Best regards,
Tony.
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