Mastering Vim

Plugin layout

Since the Vim 8 release, there's thankfully only one way of structuring your plugins (which is also compatible with major plugin managers, such as vim-plug, Vundle, or Pathogen). The plugins are expected to have the following directory structure:

• autoload/ lets you lazy load bits of your plugin (more on that later)
• colors/ color schemes
• compiler/ (language-specific) compiler-related functionality
• doc/ documentation
• ftdetect/ (filetype-specific) filetype detection settings
• ftplugin/ (filetype-specific) filetype-related plugin code
• indent/ (filetype-specific) indentation-related settings
• plugin/ the core functionality of your plugin
• syntax/ (language-specific) defines language syntax group

As we develop our plugin, let's use ...