Re: VIM - Detect Whether a Plugin is Active/Running/Open?

Excerpts from Eduardo Lúcio Amorim Costa's message of Wed Feb 12 23:30:26 +0000 2014:
> I would like to do some tricks with VIM and so I ask the help of you guys!
>
> It is possible to detect whether a plugin is active/running/open?
> You can close a plugin by its name?
> You can close a plugin when it loses focus?

You cannot close plugins. Vim uses buffers and windows (showing text).
plugins usually refere to ~/.vim/plugin/* files - if that's not enough
and if you want to redistribute a plugin today its most common to put
files on github and have a directory structure like this:

ftplugin/*
plugin/*
syntax/*
ftdetect/*

Details and history see: http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html

About keyboard mappings and swiching:
Vim supports mapping and unmapping of keyboard shortcuts. However it
usually is best to ask plugin maintainers to try either

WAY 1:
ask maintainers of plugins to allow configuring the mappings so that
there is no collision

WAY 2:
Don't load both plugins at the same time, either use plugin 1 or plugin
2. Plugin managers such as vim-addon-manager or NeoBundle support
loading additional script runtime directories (as describe above)
lazily, eg when opening a .php file a php debugger plugin/script would
be loaded. (How this is done refere to vim-addon-manager or NeoBundle's
documentation)

> Is there any plugin that facilitates the activities mentioned?
I tried writing tovl (the one vinmlib once) - but abandoned it for many
reasons - taking care about "resetting" or "unloading"
plugins/mapping/... is not worth the effort because restarting Vim is
that cheap. Plugins such as github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-local-vimrc
can help reconfiguring Vim to work with a specific project.

Marc Weber

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