2016-02-23 19:13 GMT+03:00 Ben Fritz <[email protected]>: > On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 11:58:54 PM UTC-6, ZyX wrote: >> >> Pathogen is not a plugin manager. >> > > I understand this sentiment, especially coming from someone such as yourself > who works on a very fully featured plugin manager with abilities such as > enabling or disabling plugins at runtime or automatically updating installed > plugins. > > But...what should we call Pathogen? Granted, it doesn't really do any actual > managing of plugins itself, but it enables you to do so much more easily. > > Without Pathogen, it is difficult to track down all files associated with a > plugin. Thus it is mildly difficult to install and quite difficult to > uninstall. Using Pathogen each plugin gets its own directory which is a large > improvement over the status quo (although that's changing I understand from > recent patches to the Vim core). > > Does that make Pathogen a "plugin management tool" rather than a "plugin > manager?" I can't really think of a better term for a tool that helps you > manage plugins yourself.
It is neither “plugin management tool” nor “plugin manager”, these are the same things. It is manipulating runtimepath and if you need a separate word (rather useless because there is only one such tool) that would be [runtime]path manager: it does not manages plugins in any fashion, it only does something to the running Vim and the only “external” action is generating helptags at request. > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
