Plugin Support

[TorchedSammy]

1st party plugin support for Hilbish
They would be called petals because Hibiscus and flowers 🌺
So Hilbish would basically have a plugin manager builtin to help with updating, installing and loading them
Instead of spamming requires for specific paths, you would just petals.load 'someone/hilbishplugin' maybe like vim plugins

[devins2518]

Most plugin managers (at least vim-plug which seems to be the most popular) has support for local plugins too so we'll need to handle whether its a git directory or local folder. Easiest way that I can think of is to just assume its local every time and check if its a local folder otherwise try github.

[TorchedSammy]

The privacy thing seems like a very specific case that shouldnt have to be prioritized now

[devins2518]

Sure, but is the general layout looking sane enough

[TorchedSammy]

So for plugin location how about ~/.local/share/petals/start or something like that, it should be in ~/.local/share

[devins2518]

Maybe ~/.local/share/hilbish/petals/start

[TorchedSammy]

Yes that's good

[TorchedSammy]

Next thing is the petals module api, should it actually be petals.load? How will plugins be loaded if they arent installed, and if they are how will they be started

[TorchedSammy]

figured that all out
check out petals at https://github.com/Hilbis/Petals

[TorchedSammy]

how about just directly going the packer approach to how it works? petals and packer are both lua
in the case of the neovim commands, those can just be interactive commands (update, install, which was the original plan)