On Jan 8, 9:33 am, Marc Weber wrote:
>
> Goto the section "INSTALLING THIS VIM PLUGIN" to read about the
> recommended
> setup:http://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager/blob/master/doc/vim-add...
Hi Marc,
I found your plugin interesting so I decided to try it out so here are
my initial thoughts.
INSTALLATION:
The instructions were sort of confusing to me. First I had to browse
all the way to the help file on the Github site and then the
instructions were slightly confusing. I humbly suggest the following:
1. I'm don't know much about Github but most other projects have a
readme that is visible when you browse to the project. Could you add
one of those with the installation instructions?
2. The installation instructions should contain the minimal amount of
steps to get going. As it stands the instructions are somewhat hard
to follow. Things like this:
call scriptmanager#Activate(['vim-addon-
manager','JSON',"name1","name2"])
confused me. What are those extra "JSON", "name1", etc? I later saw
described further down, but it would be better to leave them out and
mention them in some other paragraph. Also this line:
set runtimepath+=PATH_TO_vim-addon-manager
was strange. Since you've already suggested the path ~/vim-plugins,
why not be explicit again and write
set runtimepath+=~/vim-plugins/vim-addon-manager
These may seem like minor things, but the less confusion the better.
3. The installation instructions mention nothing about help files. As
it is you have to realize yourself that you need to go
:helptags ~/vim-plugins/vim-addon-manager/doc
in order to see the help.
HELP:
It seems that there is no shortcut to getting a scripts help
"installed" at the moment. Do I have to ":helptags path-to-plugin/
doc" every time I install a new plugin? It would be nice if this
could be handled automatically.
OTHER:
I found one typo in the help:
call scriptmanager#Install("name")
should be:
call scriptmanager#Install(["name"])
Is there any way to get information on a plugin? I mean, I can get a
whole list of names with
ActivateAddons <c-d>
but that isn't very helpful.
Anyway, I realize the plugin is still very new and you've probably
thought about a lot of these things already, but I just thought I'd
share my initial impressions. All my testing was done on Mac OS X
10.6 so you'll be pleased to know that your plugin work there as well
(I tried installing vim-latex and the surround plugins, but not much
else).
Björn
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