[vim/vim] packadd vs. runtimepath (#3393)

Miroslav Koškár

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Aug 31, 2018, 4:35:51 AM8/31/18

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Having packadd! ultisnips in my .vimrc results in runtime path:

~/.vim
~/.vim/pack/custom/opt/ultisnips
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles
/usr/share/vim/vim81
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after
~/.vim/after
~/.vim/pack/custom/opt/ultisnips/after

Even though :help documents this behavior

If the directory pack/*/opt/{name}/after exists it is
added at the end of 'runtimepath'.

shouldn't it rather look like following?

~/.vim
~/.vim/pack/custom/opt/ultisnips
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles
/usr/share/vim/vim81
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after
~/.vim/pack/custom/opt/ultisnips/after
~/.vim/after

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Christian Brabandt

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Sep 10, 2018, 4:21:25 AM9/10/18

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I think this is fixed by https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v8.1.0353

Christian Brabandt

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Sep 10, 2018, 4:21:26 AM9/10/18

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Closed #3393.

K.Takata

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Sep 10, 2018, 4:44:56 AM9/10/18

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Oh, #3409 was duplicate of this...

Miroslav Koškár

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Oct 2, 2018, 7:10:48 AM10/2/18

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Running 8.1 Included patches: 1-374

I get:

~/.vim
~/.vim/pack/custom/opt/ultisnips
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles
/usr/share/vim/vim81
~/.vim/pack/custom/opt/ultisnips/after
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after
~/.vim/after

I would object that /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after should come before ~/.vim/pack/custom/opt/ultisnips/after, i.e., before and after dirs should be "mirrored" over $VIMRUNTIME (/usr/share/vim/vim81 in this case).

Can we get this reopened?

Bram Moolenaar

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Oct 2, 2018, 9:48:12 AM10/2/18

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What's the problem? the package "after" directory would come from the distributed plugin, thus you might want to overrule things from that plugin in your personal "after" directory

Miroslav Koškár

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Oct 3, 2018, 7:11:17 AM10/3/18

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To rephrase it, I would expect "after" directories to be in reverse order of directories before $VIMRUNTIME. IMHO it makes sense and is pretty straightforward rule.

James McCoy

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Oct 3, 2018, 7:26:54 AM10/3/18

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To be clear, the part that's odd is the order of these two:

~/.vim/pack/custom/opt/ultisnips/after
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after

One would expect stuff under ~/.vim to come after stuff in /usr so the user can override.

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