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.

Thanks very helpful.

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