Re: Packages

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016, Matthew Desjardins wrote:
> On Friday, March 4, 2016 at 12:37:08 PM UTC-5, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > It does add the extra directory level, so that groups of plugins can be
> > installed together. Some installed always, some optionally (or when
> > needed or when specific features are present, e.g. Python).
> >
> > This does make it a bit more complicated, but the docs have the one
> > extra command to do it:
> > % mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/my/ever/always
> > % cd ~/.vim/pack/my/ever/always
> > % unzip /tmp/myplugin.zip

Is there semantic significance to the names "my" and "ever" and
"always"? Or are these arbitrary example directory names?

If they are meaningful, what is the reason for those particular names?

>
> No, the problem that makes it more complicated is that if non-plugins are treated differently, users now have to know that they have to add some lines to their vimrc to get it to load. It's a fairly meaningless distinction that the user doesn't care about.

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