The plugins tag

Question

plugins currently has this excerpt:

Vim's plugin system. DO NOT use this for questions that may require a plugin. For plugin-specific questions, use the appropriate plugin-* tag for those.

However, most people use this tag for questions that are either about a specific plugin ("How do I get foo to work with plugin bar?") or for questions where they assume the answer involves a plugin ("How do I do foo?").

I would propose:

1. Rename plugins to plugin-development or plugin-system; this should make the intent clearer. Some example questions for this tag:

   • How to design a command in a plugin that can be called from vimrc
   • What is a Vim plugin?
   • Add plugin directory

2. Remove plugins and perhaps even disallow it like vim. Is there a reason to have this tag? I don't see anyone being an expert on "plugins" in general (aside from plugin development, which we got covered with plugin-system), and in almost all cases the question aren't even about plugins as such, but about something else:

   • It's about a specific plugin, and should be tagged with this specific plugin (eg. plugin-surround).
   • It's about accomplishing a specific task or solving a problem. These questions are better off being tagged about the problem (eg. cursor-movement, spell-checking, etc.). More often than not, a plugin isn't even required.

Related meta posts:

• Should there be a separate tag for each plugin?
• Do we really need the [vim] tag?

Answer 1

I am in favor of renaming to plugin-system and blacklisting plugins itself.