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inkarkat / vim-mark

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Cannot search github.com for this plugin because it is forked #35

Closed fedorenchik closed 3 years ago

fedorenchik commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug

Due to how github search algorithm works, it's impossible to search for this plugin by it's name, that is: vim-mark.

This happens because this repo is forked from other one.

How to Reproduce

Search vim-mark from github.com front page, observe there are no results for vim-mark, even many pages down.

But less popular & less maintained scripts, that are not forks, will be shown.

I think this is serious issue in popularity of this plugin.

Expected Behavior

Remove forked from vim-scripts/Mark from this repo (make it not a fork somehow (maybe contact github.com stuff or recreate repo (in the long term, it will be beneficial still))).

Environment

inkarkat commented 3 years ago

It's indeed hard to find vim-mark. However, I think it is also partially due to the abundance of markdown Vim plugins, so the original repo also isn't very high in the list :-(

When looking at the network graph, at least it is pretty clear that my fork is the most popular one.

I'm not sure what fiddling with the fork status will bring. There are various sites around Vim plugins (e.g. https://vimawesome.com/ (where the markdown plugins also drown out this plugin)), and the original vim.org plugin registry. So, there should be lots of ways to find my plugin. This isn't about popularity, anyway; too much popularity just means less work to spend on those plugins originally authored by me :-)