Parallel Install to keep my normal vim for everything else?
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This project seems great, but I use vim for nearly everything, and can't afford to have my normal config blown away.
Is there a way to install this such that I can open vim in "haskell-vim-now" mode when I'm writing haskell, but keep normal vim for everything else? I don't mind having to open vim with special flags at the command line to achieve this.
Thanks.
I admit that this project is pretty opinionated and takes over the vim config. One thing you can do is add your own configuration to ~/.config/haskell-vim-now/vimrc.local which gets loaded after the default project settings. That will allow you to override settings with your own preferences. Also you can install your own choice of plugins in ~/.config/haskell-vim-now/plugins.vim. (There's a section in the readme about customization.)
Do you think this is what you need, or are you desiring something more?
Thanks for the reply.
I am desiring something more -- or perhaps less. What I want to do may be better answered as a pure vim question, in that I want the ability to have, essentially, 2 vim installs (or 2 entire configs, with their own vimrc, plugins, etc). 1 would be "haskell-vim-now" and 1 would be exactly what my personal vim is now.
You could do it with a symlink, which is how haskell-vim-now works. By default it sets:
~/.vimrc -> ~/.config/haskell-vim-now/.vimrc
~/.vim -> ~/.config/haskell-vim-now/.vim
Just point them at your config instead when you want. Could create mvim (aka "my vim") as a shell script that does that.
And then you would set the plugin directories inside the different .vimrcs...
Ok, I can probably figure something out. Thanks.
Cool. I'll close this issue. Feel free to comment if you run into any problems along the way with this approach.