how can I load a custom plugin?

[thewoolleyman]

And where should it live (I'm assuming not in my ~/.vim, which is a checkout of janus)? Do I just stick something in my ~/.vimrc.local? If so, what? Or are other changes required? Yehuda mentioned something about pathogen...

[hyperbolist]

I created a ~/.vim.local/ directory and put a plugin directory under that. Then at the top of my ~/.vimrc.local file, I put the following:

" append local runtime
set runtimepath+=~/.vim.local
" load local plugins
runtime! plugin/*.vim

I put some tweaked colorschemes in ~/.vim.local/colors and they too are available.

YMMV

[zerowidth]

You can use the ~/.janus.rake file for adding your own plugins now, just as they're loaded in the Janus Rakefile:

vim_plugin_task "my_hot_new_plugin", "https://github.com/plugin/hotness.git"

and then rake and you're good to go.