Take the tour ×  I feel dense asking this but I've been playing
with the "textfilter" plugin for Vim, but for the life of me I
can't get it to work.  I have a text file open just now, and I
want to find the longest line by using the plugin but I can't
seem to run it.  I've tried: :textfilter, |textfilter-find-
longest-line|, and a few others but it won't seem to run
although I'm sure it's installed correctly as it's just a case
of extracting to the correct location. It also reacts fine to
help textfilter, but getting the help page is as close as I get
to running it.  share|improve this question add comment  1
Answer  up vote 0 down vote accepted  How to use a plugin should
be documented along with the code that implements the plugin,
there is no standard way to use plugins in general.  The help
for that specific plugin indicates that it is for use from the
GUI only, and it appears that it creates menu items for the
various functions that it implements. There may be undocumented
ways to use the functions withou