Re: Managing plugins across multiple Vim versions

On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 4:04:39 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote:
> I solved the problem by installing netrw in its own directory,
> ~/.vim/netrw, and then conditionally including that directory in my
> 'runtimepath' by putting this in my ~/.vimrc:
>
> " The version of netrw installed locally needs vim 7.4.1557 or
> " later:"
> if v:version > 704 || (v:version == 704 && has("patch1557"))
> let &rtp = $HOME."/.vim/netrw,".&rtp
> endif
>
> In that way, recent versions of Vim see the latest netrw early in
> 'runtimepath' and use that version, while older versions of Vim use
> the version of netrw that was installed in their $VIMRUNTIME.
>

This seems like a good use case for the new :packadd command. :-)

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