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raghur / vim-ghost

Vim/Nvim client for GhostText - Edit browser text areas in Vim/Neovim
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Where to install #23

Closed stappersg closed 6 years ago

stappersg commented 6 years ago

The

2. Add this plugin
|   "  Vim-plug
|   Plug 'raghur/vim-ghost', {'do': ':GhostInstall'}

is too short. At least for me.

What I miss is where to install. I don't known what the full path should be.

Probably $NEOVIM_PLUGIN_PATH/vim-ghost or $NEOVIM_PLUGIN_PATH/raghur/vim-ghost

And I don't even know if there is such a thing as a $NEOVIM_PLUGIN_PATH and the value of it.

raghur commented 6 years ago

Are you using vim-plug? Plug is a command added by vim-plug and if you head over to vim plug home page, you can see configuration examples of setting the base dir for plugins to be downloaded to.

stappersg commented 6 years ago

The https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tutorial was a real eye opener for me. Thanks.

stappersg commented 5 years ago

Quoting https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tutorial

A Vim plugin is a set of Vimscript files that are laid out in a certain directory structure. Before plugin managers became popular, Vim plugins were usually distributed as tarballs. Users would manually download the file and extract it in a single directory called ~/.vim, and Vim would load the files under the directory during startup.

That in my words: There is a whole ecosystem to extend vim.

An ecosystem I didn't know that it exists.

More text from https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tutorial

vim-plug, a modern Vim plugin manager, downloads plugins into separate directories for you and makes sure that they are loaded correctly.

All you have to do is to download the file in a directory so that Vim can load it.

That in my words: vim-plug is like the legendary horse that made to conquest of Troy possible.

Thing that I'm looking for is how to install vim-ghost without a plugin manager.

Happy New Year.