Reply to message «Re: [VAM] Determine plugin names to put in vimrc», 
sent 18:52:37 18 March 2011, Friday
by Tony Mechelynck:

> Similarly, any *.vim script found in the plugin/ subdirectory of a
> directory listed in 'runtimepath' will be sourced at the end of startup,
> without the need for any entry in your vimrc. The following locations
> are typical:
On of the VAM points is not letting your ~/.vim turn into a dump. So these 
locations are not in a runtimepath until you call vam#ActivateAddons().

Second point is updating plugins with one command (and a bunch of Enter 
presses).

Third point is ability to install and activate plugins in current vim session 
without making them being activated for all following vim sessions: if you 
don't 
like the plugin or don't want it be active all the time, you just leave it 
where 
it is. Nothing is done without a command.

Original message:
> On 18/03/11 15:55, Marco wrote:
> > I started using vim-addon-manager. But I have some problems using it. How
> > do I determine the name of the plugin I have to put into my vimrc? The
> > following shows some examples of plugin names on the left and the
> > corresponding vimrc entries on the right.
> > 
> > AlignPlugin Align294
> > minibufexpl minibufexplorer_-_Elegant_buffer_explorer
> > matchit             matchit.zip
> > 
> > How can one determine the right names? Or is there an easier solution?
> > 
> > 
> > Marco
> 
> You shouldn't need anything in the vimrc. I don't use the first two that
> you mention, but for matchit I have a one-line file named
> $VIM/vimfiles/plugin/matchit.vim with the following contents:
> 
> runtime macros/matchit.vim
> 
> so it automagically sources the matchit plugin distributed with the
> current version of Vim.
> 
> Similarly, any *.vim script found in the plugin/ subdirectory of a
> directory listed in 'runtimepath' will be sourced at the end of startup,
> without the need for any entry in your vimrc. The following locations
> are typical:
> 
> $HOME/vimfiles/plugin/
>       on Windows only: user-private full-fledged plugins
> $HOME/.vim/plugin
>       on Unix-like OSes including MacOsX: user-private full-fledged
>       plugins
> $VIM/vimfiles/plugin
>       system-wide full-fledged plugins
> $VIMRUNTIME/plugin
>       ONLY the plugins distributed together with Vim: DO NOT MODIFY
>       THEM!
> $VIM/vimfiles/after/plugin
>       small system-wide tweaks to any of the above
> $HOME/vimfiles/after/plugin (Windows only)
> $HOME/.vim/after/plugin (except Windows)
>       small user-specific tweaks to any of the above
> 
> See :help 'runtimepath'
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Tony.

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