Re: Conditional bundle loading?

Off-topic: Why is this posted in reply to "Gvim crashing in xmonad"?

Matt Martini, Thu 2011-09-22 @ 13:47:30-0400:
> I would like to know if there is a way to conditionally load a bundle,
> or if there is an way to load a bundle manually.

What do you mean by "bundle"? Are you referring to Vim plugins in
general, or do you mean Pathogen bundles, which are a specific technique
for managing plugins, not part of Vim itself? It looks like you're just
referring to plugins, but it could make a difference.

> I was getting really long load times (on the order of 30 seconds) for
> vim (7.3.230 OS X), through some effort I tracked this down to the
> syntastic bundle. I like this bundle and it is really useful
> sometimes, but most of the time it is not needed for the files I am
> editing.
>
> Is there a way to create a map to load this module, or have it load
> conditionally?

Most plugins check a particular global variable and exit without loading
if it is defined. Looking at the code for Syntastic in particular, you
can see that it checks for `g:loaded_syntastic_plugin` to be defined. If
you define that variable before it loads, say, in your .vimrc, then
Syntastic will stop loading automatically.

Since the script is just plugin/syntastic.vim in your .vim directory,
you can then use `:source ~/.vim/plugin/syntastic.vim` to load it on the
fly. Make sure to `:unlet g:loaded_syntastic_plugin` first though, or it
will have no effect.

And yes, you could define a command or mapping to make that process more
automatic if you find it cumbersome to type that out each time.

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