Re: Packages

On 5 March 2016, Matthew Desjardins <desjardins.matthew@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 2:00:48 PM UTC-5, LCD 47 wrote:
> > [...] Tangentially related again: since these latest versions
> > have been pathogen slayers (like it or not, people are thinking
> > about them that way :)), pathogen has one more useful feature,
> > the :Helptags command. It runs :helptags in the directories in
> > runtimepath. Perhaps add a
> > :packhelptags[!] that does the same thing for packages (with the
> > :bang
> > version forcing update of help for disabled plugins)?
> >
> > /lcd
>
> Well that's really easy to implement in vimscript, something like:
>
> for path in split(&packpath, ',')
> for doc in split(glob(path . '/pack/**/doc'), '\n')
> execute 'helptags' doc
> endfor
> endfor

Arguably, few functions of pathogen are "hard". The less than
trivial part is actually making them robust; I believe that was the
main point of pathogen. Would your method still work if one of the
components in packpath had a comma in a directory name?

/lcd

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