On Jan 10, 7:08 pm, Marc Weber wrote:
>
> Thank you for you feedback.
> I tried improving the documentation now.

Ok, it looks a little bit better...but I insist that it can be even
simpler: in the "add to .vimrc" section I think you should only
mention the runtimepath setting and say "that's it!".  Afterwards,
mention how to activate plugins...I still don't understand what
"name1", "name2" means (ok I do, but it's weird...it looks like I
should be able to cut&paste the lines in the help file, but that
currently would not work [unless there is are plugins called "name1"
and "name2"]).


> About README: There is one catch:
> If all plugins contain a README you can't install them into .vim without
> causing conflicts. Tim Pope told me about this. That's why I removed the
> README. But maybe I should readd it because getting started is more
> important.

I see...that is kind of unfortunate.  However, following your
instructions the addon-manager plugin should go into its own folder
anyway so it's not really that much of a problem then, I guess.


> > 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.
>
> You made me feel lucky. This shows that you managed to install the
> plugin and that you like it. You like it because it let's you getting
> things done faster than usingwww.vim.org. That was one of my primary
> goals. And now you want to have the features whichwww.vim.orgprovides.
>
> How should this look like?
> May I assist you implementing the missing feature?
> Reimplementing thehttp://www.vim.org/search.phpdoesn't make much
> sense. That's why I stopped thinking about it.

Sorry, I don't really have any good ideas...but at least some minimal
information such as one line (a title) stating what the plugin is for
and a URL (pointing to vim.org most likely) where you could get more
info could be useful.  I'm thinking of something like what MacPorts
does for you (ok, you don't run OS X so you probably won't know what
I'm talking about but I don't know any equivalent in the Linux world).


Anyway, I ran into some problems trying to install the LustyExplorer
plugin:

Error detected while processing function
scriptmanager#Activate..scriptmanager#ActivateRecursively..scriptmanager#Install..scriptmanager#Checkout:
line   43:
E605: Exception not caught: don't know how to checkout source
location: {'version': '2.1.1', 'url': 'http://www.vim.org/scripts/
download_script.php?src_id=11526', 'vim_version': '7.0', 'date':
'2009-10-13', 'vim_script_nr': 1890, 'type': 'archive', 'script-type':
'utility', 'archive_name': 'lusty-explorer.vim'}
Error detected while processing function
scriptmanager#Activate..scriptmanager#ActivateRecursively..scriptmanager#Install:
line   18:
E171: Missing :endif
Error detected while processing function
scriptmanager#Activate..scriptmanager#ActivateRecursively:
line   10:
E171: Missing :endif

I'm not sure what this means?  Is it not possible to install
plain .vim scripts perhaps?

Björn
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