misc/vim: update instructions #3308
Description
by brennan.vincent:
What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Follow the steps at the top of $GOROOT/misc/vim/readme.txt to enable all plugins 2. vim foo.go 3. :echo &filetype What is the expected output? go What do you see instead? nothing Which operating system are you using? Fedora Core 16 Which revision are you using? (hg identify) 927ed13f91eb tip Please provide any additional information below. The instructions in readme.txt are as follows: To use all the Vim plugins, add these lines to your vimrc. set rtp+=$GOROOT/misc/vim filetype plugin indent on syntax on The issue seems to me to be that Fedora already includes a file /etc/vimrc that executes "filetype plugin on" before ~/.vimrc is ever executed, thus before $GOROOT/misc/vim is ever added to the runtime path (rtp). Since filetype the "filetype plugin indent on" line in ~/.vimrc does not trigger the loading of all the files in the ftdetect folder under all folders in the runtime path, as the instructions in the readme require. Thus the instructions need to be improved. Adding "filetype off" before "filetype plugin indent on" in ~/.vimrc resolves the issue, as does simply copying over the gofiletype.vim file to ~/.vim/ftdetect, but both of these solutions seem ugly to me. I don't know enough about vim to come up with a better solution.