Custom vim directory structure?

[dideler]

Hi Tokoro,

I found your dotfiles when searching how to add a keybinding to adjust the width of dwm panes in vim. To be specific, I found the file .vim/custom/vimrc/plugin/keybind/dwm.vim.

But I'm curious about your directory structure. My .vimrc is messy, I have a lot of mappings in there. I would like to try using a setup inspired by yours, e.g. .vim/mappings/dwm.vim. My question is, will vim autoload these files or do you need to configure vim and tell it to load these files?

[tokoro10g]

Hi, dideler,

You can do this by adding your directory path into runtimepath and evaluating the scripts by :runtime! command.

In my .vimrc, ~/.vim/custom is set by

set runtimepath+=~/.vim/custom

Then, the runtime scripts in some directories with reserved name like syntax or filetype under the custom directory will be loaded and evaluated automatically.
e.g.) ~/.vim/custom/syntax/foo.vim, ~/.vim/custom/colors/colorscheme.vim

As for scripts which is not in such directories, they will not be executed automatically.
So, you have to call :runtime command in order to load the remaining scripts.
Using this trick, you can achieve some extension of .vimrc. See .vimrc of mine and :help runtimepath, :help :runtime for more information.

Hope this helps 😆

[dideler]

Thank you very much! 😄