Re: Why Vimball archives are evil?

On Sep 25, 9:39 pm, Charles E Campbell Jr <drc...@campbellfamily.biz>
wrote:
> > Agree, so why not simply provide .vim files, which does not need to be
> > decompressed at all?
>
> > I usually distribute my scripts in plain .vim format. Trying to integrate
> > everything into one single .vim isn't quite difficult.
>
> > For Windows Vim user, it would be much better too see something end with
> > .vim than .vba,  (change it to .vima would be great.)
>
> Here are some reasons:
>
>   * syntax files should go into syntax directories
>   * plugin/ vs autoload/ -- putting everything into one file means
> slower startup
>   * ftplugin/ and plugin/ -- sometimes plugins work with multiple
> filetypes (ex. my AutoAlign, which has a common portion and separate,
> typically small, sections for various filetypes).  Its cleaner than
> using a lot of autocmds.
>
> I'm sure I could come up with more reasons if pressed.
>

You missed one huge one:

* A good plugin should come with good documentation which integrates
with the Vim :help. Vimball archives allow you to put the .txt help
file in the same archive, and will even (if I remember correctly)
automatically run :helptags after copying it to the appropriate
location.

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