Sunday, February 21, 2010

Re: Commenting Plugin Available by Default

Excerpts from Francis Giannaros's message of Mon Feb 22 01:32:16 +0100 2010:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose that a commenting plugin be shipped with Vim
> by default. Having tried a few of these, I have found the NERD
> Commenter plugin to be the most extensive and widely used, supporting
> a horde of programming languages.
How does this look like? I don't use comments that often and I don't
want Vim to load read lines which are used occasionally only.

It also has a design flaw:
a)
The NERD commenting plugin file is > 3000 lines of code to be sourced at
each startup of Vim.

b)
You can only add comment style and an alternative one.
However there are languages which support 3 comment styles such as PHP:
#, /* .. */ and //.

This doesn't change the fact that this plugin probably is the best
plugin which is available at the moment.

Francis: Until the ships with Vim I recommend you having a look at my
vim-addon-manager plugin. It makes installing plugins that easy that you
can stop worrying about whether a plugin is included in a Vim
distribution.

So I vote for at least moving most code into an autoload file before
distributing it along with Vim.

Marc Weber

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