Every now and then I look up from what I'm doing and think "there might be a better way." In this hopeful spirit, I just ran :help plugins
GETTING A GLOBAL PLUGIN Where can you find plugins? - Some come with Vim. You can find them in the directory $VIMRUNTIME/ macros and its sub-directories. Jolly good! >echo $VIMRUNTIME >echo $VIMRUNTIME So, I'm managing to run vim without a VIMRUNTIME setting? Does it matter? Should I have one? Ad it's only fair to say that if anyone manages to help with that question there'll undoubtedly be more: the goal is to activate the matchit plugin, concerning which the help says "Very useful, although it's not backwards compatible (that's why it is not enabled by default)." Backwards compatible with what, I have to wonder … ubuntu 10.04, vim 7.2 ... Thanks in advance! -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
