Re: Difficulty with Packages

On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 4:56:46 PM UTC-4, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Matthew Desjardins wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to get packages to work, but I'm having difficulties
> > with the resulting 'runtimepath'. Packages are all added after my own
> > "after" directory, which I would have assumed would be at the end to
> > allow me to override things.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> What is supposed to happen is that the package directory is added just
> after the entry in 'runtimepath' where it that package was found.
>
> For example, the 'rtp' starts as:
> ~/.vim,/usr/lib/vim/vim74/runtime,~/.vim/after
>
> And when finding the matchit plugin it becomes:
> ~/.vim,/usr/lib/vim/vim74/runtime,/usr/lib/vim/vim74/runtime/pack/dist/opt/matchit,~/.vim/after
>
> Or when finding a package under ~/.vim:
> ~/.vim,~/.vim/pack/my/start/demo,/usr/lib/vim/vim74/runtime,~/.vim/after
>
>
> Can you give a small example of what you are doing and what you see
> happens?
>
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packadd-ing an opt is fine, but something under a start is appended to my runtimepath:

C:\Users\desjardinsm/vimfiles,C:\Program Files\Vim/vimfiles,C:\Program Files\Vim\vim74,C:\Program Files\Vim\vim74\pack\dist\opt\matchit,C:\Program Files\Vim/vimfiles/after,C:\Users\desjardinsm/vimfiles/after,C:/Users/desjardinsm/vimfiles/pack/test/start/test

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