Re: Packages

Matthew Desjardins wrote:

> There have been a couple of people posting about how the new package
> feature can, in its current state, replace Pathogen.
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/BN5DuHpzzBc/OjoGDSqeEQAJ
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_use/QHqDKtdqUkk/PY7WydFdAQAJ
>
> Could someone explain how? It doesn't seem to work for plugins that
> don't have a "plugin" directory, and as far as I can tell from the
> source it's not supposed to, either.
>
> Why was this decision made to only support plugins with a "plugin"
> directory?

It's very easy to add an empty plugin/foo.vim file. If you really need
to, I would expect nearly every plugin to at least do something, such as
defining a user command or mapping. Maybe it's empty if you only want to
make a syntax file available.

It would be possible to make another command than :loadplugin to find
any directory with the specified name under 'packpath', but I don't see
a good reason. Perhaps adding a remark to the documentation is
sufficient?

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