On Tuesday, April 13, 2010, Marc Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from stosss's message of Wed Apr 14 00:50:12 +0200 2010: >> These two directories are a little confusing. >> >> ./vim/ftplugin - is for plugins that tell Vim how to deal with a >> file's format. How does that differ with the syntax directory? > > If you look at them they have much in common: > Both are loaded if you set the filetype (example :set filetype=xml) > > There are two different files for syntax and ftp so that you can load > both featuers independently. > > Eg you may use the runtime command or source those files. > Or you can use > ftplugin on > syntax off > to load ftplugin/filetype.vim files only, but not the syntax directory > >> ./vim/plugin - is for plugins to expand Vims functionality. > This code doesn't differ much from your ~/.vimrc. Both are loaded on > startup. > Everything which you would put into ~/.vimrc and gets longer and longer > can be moved into a plugin/custom-name.vim file. That's what most > plugins are doing.
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