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Vim: How to manually load an ftplugin after startup?

Answer 1

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:f something.html
:w
:e

Antony Hatchkins 2009-12-28 19:20:12

Did you try it? It works ;)

Antony Hatchkins 2009-12-28 20:52:27

Sorry, yes I tried this to no avail. I think Pierre has a point in his comments above below his post; I'll try to put an html.vim to source the other ftplugin.

Rob 2009-12-29 15:02:39

I've installed snipMate. Here's a sequence of my commands: vi a.txt:f a.cpp :w :e then I enter for and press <tab> and it inserts the for cycle as documented. Maybe you will give it yet another try? When you do :e vim does exactly the same sequence of actions as it would opening the file as "vi <filename>" which involves loading all necessary plugins.

Antony Hatchkins 2009-12-30 05:39:08

Well snipMate itself works (sorry for the big misunderstanding), but specifcally for .html files, it calls a little helper script located in ~/.vim/ftplugin...this is the issue I am having. This particular script adds nothing other then it closes any html tags that are by nature single like <br /> for example.

Rob 2009-12-30 20:46:24

Answer 2

+2 A:

:filetype on
:set filetype=html

Andy 2009-12-28 19:24:14

Thanks. I tried but did not work for me.

Rob 2009-12-28 20:20:17

Weird. I tried it and works for me. Something odd going on...

Andy 2009-12-28 21:57:39

Filetype has three settings: detection, plugin loading and indentation. :filetype on will only set the detection, try ":filetype plugin on" or even ":filetype plugin indent on".

Chris089 2010-03-09 14:07:20

Answer 3

+4 A:

I'm fairly sure that when you switch a file's type using :set ft=X it will automatically load the associated plugin in your .vim/ftplugin folder. E.g. :set ft=html would load .vim/ftplugin/html.vim where you would load any associated plugins. However BufEnter and BufNew plugin loads associated with html files won't be loaded as setting a new filetype does not trigger these events. So if you have html specific plugins in your .vimrc that are loaded with BufNew or BufEnter you may want to put them in a .vim/ftpluging/html.vim file instead.

You could always add a modeline to your text file that changes the filetype. E.g. .

Pierre-Antoine LaFayette 2009-12-28 19:40:20

I'm specifically having trouble with this for the snipMate plugin which has one of its scripts in ~/.vim/ftplugin/ - I get there by using the it's all text firefox plugin which opens the web page as a .txt file. I have to do this because I'm working with a CMS.

Rob 2009-12-28 20:17:54

The exact file the does NOT get loaded is: ~/.vim/ftplugin/html_snip_helper.vim (which snipMate uses to close html tags so for example typing an r and hitting TAB creates <br />)

Rob 2009-12-28 20:23:02

Scripts in the ftplugin folder MUST have the name of the filetype, e.g. python.vim, ruby.vim, html.vim. These are defined in the filetype.vim. My guess is that html_snip_header.vim gets loaded by the snipMate plugin which is loaded in the plugin directory right? Add a html.vim file under ftplugin that loads html_snip_header.vim directly and it should have the same effect.

Pierre-Antoine LaFayette 2009-12-29 12:30:21

You could always add a modeline to your text file that changes the status e.g. ``.

Pierre-Antoine LaFayette 2009-12-29 12:32:46

Thanks for the tips Pierre! I'm going to try when I get to work ;)

Rob 2009-12-29 15:00:20

Yeah it's strange, the modeline and/or the :set ft=html work to get the filetype to be html and the snipMate plugin seems to do its thing, but the helper script isn't working because I don't get the close tags for things like <br />. Perhaps there's an ordering issue. Also, the --> gives me an error but doesn't seem to hurt anything. If I do vim: ft=html, no error but then I'd have to delete.

Rob 2009-12-29 19:34:26

I should clarify I meant the ordering of which gets loaded first, the helper in ftplugin or the plugin itself. Also, the vim: ft=html is without the html commenting to not get the error on the --> but this is not the core issue at this point. Thanks for your help so far Pierre!

Rob 2009-12-29 19:36:19

Answer 4

A:

Vim automatically loads the correct plugin when you change the filetype

:set ft=python

You can start up vim in verbose mode:

vim -V

This will show you what vim is executing. If you open a file and manually set the filetype, vim will show if it's loading the correct plugin.

Kousha 2010-02-20 11:32:54

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