I have downloaded the snippet plugin from
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=361
and have done all the steps described there to
install it but, unfortunately, it does not work.
My first thought was that a plugin should be somehow
loaded into Vim but Vim documentation says that
"Vim's functionality can be extended by adding plugins.
A plugin is nothing more than a Vim script file that
is loaded automatically when Vim starts. You can add
a plugin very easily by dropping it in your plugin
directory. {not available when Vim was compiled
without the +eval feature}"
So, it seems that no load command is needed.
I am going to post the question about it in vim mailing list
but I guess that the first question to me will be: "Was your
vim compiled with the +eval feature?"
I guess that the answer is "yes" but do not know it for sure.
To find out this I have tried
$ equery uses vim
but it gives no exact answer to the question above
(though it seems that the answer is "yes", I guess
it from the fact that the minimal use flag is disabled).
Here is the output from this command:
* Found these USE flags for app-editors/vim-7.4.273:
U I
+ + X : Link console vim against X11 libraries to
enable title and clipboard features in xterm
+ + acl : Add support for Access Control Lists
- - cscope : Enable cscope interface -- in vim for example
- - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts
and extra output. If you want to get meaningful
backtraces see
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
+ + gpm : Add support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver)
- - lua : Enable Lua scripting support
- - luajit : Use dev-lang/luajit instead of dev-lang/lua
- - minimal : Install a very minimal build (disables, for example,
plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features)
+ + nls : Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale
utilities)
- - perl : Add optional support/bindings for the Perl language
- - python : Add optional support/bindings for the Python language
+ + python_single_target_python2_7 : Build for Python 2.7 only
- - python_single_target_python3_3 : Build for Python 3.3 only
+ + python_targets_python2_7 : Build with Python 2.7
+ + python_targets_python3_3 : Build with Python 3.3
- - racket : Enable support for Scheme using
dev-lang/racket
- - ruby : Add support/bindings for the Ruby language
- - tcl : Add support the Tcl language
- - vim-pager : Install vimpager and vimmanpager links
More generally, I would also ask if there is something
specific in Gentoo Vim setup that could prevent a Vim
plugin from executing?
P.S. I have also tried to load all the plugins by
:runtime! plugin/**/*.vim
command as described in Vim documentation but it says:
Error detected while processing ~/.vim/plugin/snippet.vim:
line 28:
E15: Invalid expression: exists("loaded_snippets")
line 231:
E171: missing :endif
