Add and remove directories from vim run time, best practice/HOWTO

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Sat Oct 22 14:57:31 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 07:15:09PM +0530, harish badrinath wrote:
> Are there any best practices or a HOWTO to add and remove directories
> from the run time path ??
> 
> I  would prefer the most dpkg-friendly approach.

Your package shouldn't do anything to modify 'runtimepath'.  Just
register your files with vim-addon-manager and the user can decide if
they want to enable the script you packaged.

> Suppose my package has to
> (a) add the directory path /usr/share/vim-conque during package installation
> (b) remove the directory path /usr/share/vim-conque during package removal
> (c) the package and/or its parent has to ensure that /usr/share/vim-conque
> is found after upgrades, this could be the responsibility of the
> package in question,
> its "parent" package (vim) and/or a combination of both.
(d) Put a conque.yaml file in /usr/share/vim/registry/ so
vim-addon-manager knows about the plugin.

Then the user can use “vim-addons install conque” to enable the plugin.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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