Re: Packages

On 2016-03-07, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016, Benjamin Fritz wrote:
> > [in attachment]
> > > +directory under your package, whereas plugins you enable on demand go in an
> > > +"opt" directory so that |:packadd| can find them. See |pack-add| below.
> >
> > OK, I see that the intended semantics of the word "ever" is as a synonym
> > of "always". I wasn't clear on that.
> >
> > I would strongly advise using "always" instead. "Ever" in modern English
> > is a negative-polarity word, which means you can't say "Vim should
> > _ever_ load this plugin". You're limited to stating a negative ("Vim
> > shouldn't ever...") or positing a conditional ("if Vim should ever...")
> > or asking a question ("should Vim ever...?"), and maybe a few other uses
> > I can't think of right now.
> >
> > "Vim should _always_ load this plugin" is fine.
>
> "always" is a bit long. I'm trying to keep the path names as short as
> we can.
>
> Thanks for explaining the confusion about "ever".
>
> I thought cold use "opt" for optional, now we need something for always,
> or automatically. Perhaps "auto" is better? Could be confused with
> "autoload" though. It's also related to startup and initialization.
> "init" doesn't seem right though.

I think if you mean "always", then you should say "always". As for
length, "always" is the same length as "indent", "plugin" and
"syntax", and shorter than "autoload", "compiler", "ftdetect" and
"ftplugin".

Regards,
Gary

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