Re: Packages

Matthew Desjardins wrote:

> On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 9:20:00 AM UTC-5, Matthew Desjardins wrote:
> > There have been a couple of people posting about how the new package feature can, in its current state, replace Pathogen.
> >
> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/BN5DuHpzzBc/OjoGDSqeEQAJ
> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_use/QHqDKtdqUkk/PY7WydFdAQAJ
> >
> > Could someone explain how? It doesn't seem to work for plugins that
> > don't have a "plugin" directory, and as far as I can tell from the
> > source it's not supposed to, either.
> >
> > Why was this decision made to only support plugins with a "plugin"
> > directory?
>
> If I'm understanding 7.4.1480 correctly, if something is just a syntax
> file, for example, it has to go under "opts" and loaded manually with
> ":packadd"?

Either that or create an empty plugin file.

I realize several people who have previously been using Pathogen are
confused. Perhaps we can just put every directory under "pack/*/ever"
in 'runtimepath'?

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