Future of the "man.vim" plugin

[Franklin, Jason]

Greetings:

I have a simple question. What is the future of the man.vim plugin
(that supplies the :Man command)?

I have a number of small fixes for this plugin that improve its behavior
for me, but I don't want to send patches and write tests if it will
eventually be replaced.

Is it likely that this will go away in favor of another option?

--
Jason Franklin

[Christian Brabandt]

I don't think so. As long as it is useful and it has someone that takes
care of it (a maintainer), I believe it will be available within the Vim
runtime files.

Are you talking about the ftplugin/man.vim plugin or the syntax/man.vim
plugin or another one?




Best,
Christian
--
So viel ist gewonnen, wenn nur einer aufsteht und nein sagt.
-- Bertold Brecht

[SungHyun Nam]

Hello!

2020-03-10 오후 11:30에 Christian Brabandt 이(가) 쓴 글:

>
> On Di, 10 Mär 2020, Franklin, Jason wrote:
>
>> Greetings:
>>
>> I have a simple question. What is the future of the man.vim plugin
>> (that supplies the :Man command)?

There's no future loadmap. I think of it as performing basic functions
like the *nix 'ls' command.

However, if someone sends a bug fix or a patch that is considered useful
to other people, I've been applying it.
If you prefer github PR(pull request), that's good, too.

And I know you've already worked on this plugin several times.
Thank you very much.

>> I have a number of small fixes for this plugin that improve its behavior
>> for me, but I don't want to send patches and write tests if it will
>> eventually be replaced.
>>
>> Is it likely that this will go away in favor of another option?
>
> I don't think so. As long as it is useful and it has someone that takes
> care of it (a maintainer), I believe it will be available within the Vim
> runtime files.
>
> Are you talking about the ftplugin/man.vim plugin or the syntax/man.vim
> plugin or another one?

I think it's a ftplugin/man.vim because he talked about :Man command.

Thanks,
namsh