Documentation: ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack or ~/.config/nvim/pack ?

[jalvesaq]

• nvim --version: v0.1.5-731-g006f9c0

This is not a bug report; just a quibble.

The documentation refers to ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack as the proper place to put Vim packages. In my opinion, the ~/.local/share/nvim directory should continue to be used for storing hidden things, like shada and swap subdirectories which are created by nvim itself. A plugin similarly to vim-plug which would automatically add, remove and update plugins from github and other sources could save the plugins in ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/plugged/start. However, for plugins added manually by users, I think ~/.config/nvim/pack/foo/start is more appropriate because users should be guided to put all their configuration files, including plugins, into the same directory: ~/.config/nvim.

Please, feel free to close this issue if you disagree.

[ZyX-I]

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME is for user configuration. Plugins are not configuration, they are third-party blobs normally not modified by user and thus are to be placed to $XDG_DATA_HOME. $XDG_DATA_HOME is not for “hidden” things, it is for “data files” that are not edited by user.

[jalvesaq]

Thanks for clarifying! It makes sense.