vim-reason-loader

Currently deprecated. Please use vim-reason instead!

Vim plugin that loads the real Reason and Merlin plugins from the PATH.

Installation

• install using Vundle or NeoBundle.

    " Or if using NeoBundle(recommended)
    NeoBundle 'reasonml/vim-reason-loader'
  
    " Using Vundle
    Bundle 'reasonml/vim-reason-loader'
  
    " Using Vim Plug
    Plug 'reasonml/vim-reason-loader'
  

Usage

It's really simple: when you start vim, make sure that the PATH environment variable has any and all Merlin, ocaml, and Reason tooling available in the path.

You can test this by trying which ocamlmerlin, and which refmt.

If that doesn't print the path, then you haven't used your package manager to correctly setup your PATH with those tools globally available.

Details:

This is a tiny Vim plugin whose only job is to load the real Vim Reason / Merlin plugins when you start Vim. In general, if you've already installed Reason, Merlin, or OCaml those installations have the real Vim plugins sitting next to the ocamlmerlin, and refmt binaries respectively. Depending on how you installed the packages, the real plugin code is likely sitting somewhere next to those binaries, and this plugin loads them from that location.

Why would you want to do this? Because you may have two separate projects, that have different versions of refmt, or ocamlmerlin, or Reason syntax highlighting, and you change your PATH environment variable to reflect your specific project. You want to make sure that when you start Vim, you're loading the Vim plugins for the specific versions of Reason / Merlin that you are working on. This scripts wraps that short, but messy logic into one Vim plugin that you can depend on easily like any other Vim plugin.

Troubleshooting

• Colors Aren't Appearing
  • If you're using a combination of zsh and nvim, you may run into an issue where the correct shell will load, but colors won't display correctly.
  • You can try to fix this by setting set shell=/bin/sh in your Neovim config.