On 04/08/2011 10:10 AM, Marc Weber wrote:
> Changing the name would take several hours of work including
> finding many references on the web.
> 
> Can we add a disambiguitation instead at a place you searched?

IIRC, I just searched Google for "vim snippets", and that led me to
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2540 .

> snipmate: goto github.com. Try to find all snipmate forks. There
> are damn many. AFAIK most are compatible so it doesn't really
> matter.
>
> About snipmate I recommend watching two locations:
> 
> https://github.com/MarcWeber/snipmate.vim
> https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate
> 
> If you use VAM you can install both by these names:
> 
>   "github:MarcWebe/snipmate.vim"

Should be: "github:MarcWeber/snipmate.vim"

> or
>   "github:garbas/vim-snipmate"
> 
> We both occasionally merge from each other.
> 
> For now I'll open a ticken on
> github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager talking about your request
> for a rename.

Thanks!

For anyone else interested, here's that issue:
https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager/issues/39

> However there are more important things to work on IMHO such as
> improving vim.sf.net.
> 
> 
> If we are at it: Even though VAM is confusing because it has the
> same name as the debian tool it tries to make your life easier.
> People can talk to me and tell my why I should add this or that
> version of a plugin (such as snipmate) to the list of known repos.
>
> Currently the only sensible thing to do which comes to my mind is
> using the word VAM more often than vim-addon-manager - however
> google does not find it on the first page.
> 
> I added a big fat notice on the README on my github page. The
> vim.sf.net already has it AFAIK.
> 
> If you have any suggestions reply again.

Will do.

Thanks for the issue and disambiguation, Marc.

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