> Andy Wokula just uploaded what seems like a useful plugin called
> 'motpat'.
I don't think short names of plugins come from 8.3, there is different
reason. See below.
> Months from now, there's no way I'd remember 'motpat' comes from
You don't need to remember the precise name. There is google.
If you remember enough keywords (motion, mappings, pattern), then
typing "vim" + "plugin" + keywords into google will take you to
motpat.vim faster than you'd expect.
Long name ? Using long name won't guaranee one remembers its
precisely.
Was is MotionMappingsByPattern.vim ?
Or CreateMotionMappingsByPattern.vim ?
Or MotionMapsPattern.vim ?
The longer name, the more possibilities.
I, personally, don't beleive I'm better at remembering
verbatim long names than at remembering short names.
If you want to see long mnemonic name in your ~/.vimrc directory,
you can create a symlink locally, using whatever you remember well.
I wrote plugins myself. I beleive short names have nothing to do with
8.3.
When debugging and writing and polishing the plugin, author types its
name
thousands of times. So there is tendency to shorten the name, just for
typing convenience.
Symlinks are your friends for local convenience, and google - for
search.
Yakov
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