Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Re: Difficulty with Packages

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

Looks like a forward/backward slash mixup problem.

Can somone using Windows reproduct this and find out what is the best
way to fix it?

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