On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> There is a /usr/share/vim folder and inside of it /plugin, /vim72 and /vimfiles >> I tried to copy my files from ~/.vim to all of that places and nothing worked. Don't know what to try else. > > We try to be more compliant with upstream vim: the out of the box path > consists of /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after and /usr/share/vim/vim72, > where the vimfiles/after one is the more desireable to use because it > does not contain version information. > > The plugins bundled with Archlinux now use /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after > and they have been recompiled for that. The whole point of that was, > that we never ever have to set the runtimepath again. Hrrm, I don't know if we should be using the 'after' dir for default plugins installed by pacman. It seem like these actually belong in /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/. The after directory has a special purpose, and none of the plugins I can think of seem to fit that purpose. At least, it doesn't seem valid to use the after dir as a general rule.
