Re: installing vim plug on linux

On 2020-04-25, Matthew Pritchard wrote:
> Hello i am wanting to install vim plug on linux. I understand that vim plug
> installs to the autoload directory but I am unsure what this is exaclty.
> When I enter vim --version in terminal it shows that my vimrc file is in the
> following directory.
>  
> system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
>  user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
>  2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
>  user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
>   defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
>   fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
>
> Is one of these the autoload directory? If not where is the autoload directory.
> If not where is it? Do I have to create it? How?

The autoload directory into which you should install a plugin is
~/.vim/autoload. You can create it with this command, executed at
your shell prompt:

$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload

Remember never to install your own files into any directory under
$VIMRUNTIME as you may lose them when you update Vim.

Regards,
Gary

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