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Lim H.
Lim H.

Reputation: 10050

Global plugin in VIM is not loaded

I love the dragvisuals vim plugin introduced in Damien Conway's OSCON 2013 talk. There is a github clone for the plugin here: https://github.com/atweiden/vim-dragvisuals. The problem is I can't get it to work. Here are the steps that I have taken:

1.Drop the script in my $VIMRUNTIME/plugin path and added the relevant settings to my .vimrc

ru plugin/dragvisuals.vim
vmap  <expr>  <LEFT>   DVB_Drag('left')
vmap  <expr>  <RIGHT>  DVB_Drag('right')
vmap  <expr>  <DOWN>   DVB_Drag('down')
vmap  <expr>  <UP>     DVB_Drag('up')
vmap  <expr>  D        DVB_Duplicate()
let g:dvb_trimws = 1

2.The script gets loaded successfully because it is output by :scriptnames

/vim/runtime/path/dragvisuals.vim

But all of the functions (DVB_Drag, DVB_Duplicate) are not loaded. Am I missing anything?

EDIT: At first I tried putting the script in ~/.vim/plugin as well as as ~/.vim/bundle/vim-dragsvisual/plugin because I use vundle to manage my plugins. But it didn't work; that's why I put the script in $VIMRUNTIME as the last resort.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 294

Answers (1)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196566

Start again by placing the plugin in ~/.vim/plugin and removing the ru plugin/dragvisuals.vim from your ~/.vimrc.

Installed correctly, that plugin seems to work perfectly and does exactly what it's supposed to do, here.

Never touch $VIMRUNTIME.

Upvotes: 2

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