commit 494cf63f954cf420a9635c5bf4e47c1896303826
author Michael Giuffrida <michaelpg@chromium.org> Tue Oct 17 06:15:35 2017 +0000
committer Commit Bot <commit-bot@chromium.org> Tue Oct 17 06:15:35 2017 +0000
tree e97bdf223a48cb50de114fbbf99350cd6392a547
parent f149d8361d3c73182a193090c9ba58380bebf1ec

Vim: Don't prepend to runtimepath

Recommend appending, instead of prepending, paths to `runtimepath`.

Vim uses the first directory in the 'runtimepath' option for some
special uses, such as the location of the .netrwhist file.[1]
Prepending these paths to `runtimepath` may result in unwanted file
creation in those directories, leading to annoying untracked files
in your workdir.

It should be safe to append these paths instead, assuming other scripts
for these file types aren't appended first.

Alternatively, we could add files like .netrwhist to .gitignore, but
then developers would lose global Vim history when removing their
workdir, which is weird.

[1] https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/890680ca6364386fabb271c85e0755bcaa6a33c1/runtime/doc/pi_netrw.txt#L1434

Change-Id: I3bff2aa540a8392b103d0edf3eba59b7482296c7
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/721256
Reviewed-by: Scott Graham <scottmg@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Michael Giuffrida <michaelpg@chromium.org>
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