vim-addon-manager should inform the user how to enable addons
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| vim-addon-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I installed a vim-plugin via
apt-get install vim-latexsuite
which automatically pulled in vim-addon-manager. After the installation, I tried to use the addon. I had syntax highlighting (as it turned out later, this wasn't part of the addon, but some standard highlighting file), but more advanced features (such as folding) didn't work. At first I thought that something is wrong with the addon configuration, so I starting fiddling with the configuration...
It took 4h before I stumbled (by accident) over a post on ask-ubuntu indicating that ubuntu sets up vim-plugins in such a way that users who actually want to use the plugin they just installed (grotesque, I know) would have to enable said addon via vim-addon-manager. While this behavior is fine and makes sense, I would really really like to have, as a service to the user, that, upon installation of vim-addon-manager, a message is displayed hinting that it is necessary to *activate* any installed addon. Maybe via a post-installation script?
This could have saved my mood today and has the potential of saving the moods of so many others in the future :)
