> ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Aaron Griffin > > Sent: 09/22/09 07:10 pm > > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux > > Subject: Re: [arch-general] vim 7.2.245-1 > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Jozsef wrote: > >> I never used runtimepath before and everything worked fine. > You shouldn't have to. It is set by default by vim. In a running vim > instance do > :echo &runtimepath > >> And I don't have a "after" directory in /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ > at the moment. Is it something I should create by myself? > It doesn't need to exist. And it's certainly useless if empty. Only > create it if you need it. > > And all of that directories inside of /usr/share/vim/ are owned by > root. It could be a reason why the plugins don't work if I copy them > to vimfiles/plugins or vimfiles/after > > I'm not running vim as root, why should I do that? > Owned by root does not mean that you can't READ the files. Vim > doesn't > need to do anything except read them, and it can. > I guess I'm confused as to where you installed your plugins. It's > typically best to install them in ~/.vim/ rather than system wide > > > If the Vim 7.2.245-1 will work the same as my previous version, in case > if I create that "after" directory and copy everything from ~/.vim into > it, I would be happy to do it. In that case everything should work > without setting runtimepath in ~/.vimrc > > But I'm not sure that's the case. Will try and let you know. > > I installed all my plugins in ~/.vim directory. But as I said earlier, > non of my plugins worked with Vim 7.2.245-1 before I added "set > runtimepath..." in ~/.vimrc > > That's why I tried first to copy my plugins in /usr/share/vim and > /usr/share/vim/vimfiles and other places. But nothing helped. I didn't > knew about "after" directory, that's why I haven't tried that yet. > ----- End forwarded message ----- PS: sometimes if I'm using webmail, my emails are blank :P -- Best, Jozsef Kurucity | Web & Graphic Designer +971 50 6783113 | jozefk@xxxxxxx
