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Reword §05.4 to describe using the new vimball package

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@ -246,25 +246,26 @@ The ":map" command (with no arguments) lists your current mappings. At
least the ones for Normal mode. More about mappings in section |40.1|.
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*05.4* Adding a package *add-package* *matchit-install*
*05.4* Adding a package *add-package* *vimball-install*
A package is a set of files that you can add to Vim. There are two kinds of
packages: optional and automatically loaded on startup.
The Vim distribution comes with a few packages that you can optionally use.
For example, the matchit plugin. This plugin makes the "%" command jump to
matching HTML tags, if/else/endif in Vim scripts, etc. Very useful, although
it's not backwards compatible (that's why it is not enabled by default).
For example, the vimball plugin. This plugin supports creating and using
vimballs (self-installing Vim plugin archives).
To start using the matchit plugin, add one line to your vimrc file: >
packadd matchit
To start using the vimball plugin, add one line to your vimrc file: >
packadd vimball
That's all! You can also type the command to try it out. Now you can find
help about this plugin: >
:help matchit
:help vimball
This works, because when `:packadd` loaded the plugin it also added the
package directory in 'runtimepath', so that the help file can be found.
package directory in 'runtimepath', so that the help file can be found. The
tags for vimball's help are already created. If you need to generate the help
tags for a package, see the `:helptags` command.
You can find packages on the Internet in various places. It usually comes as
an archive or as a repository. For an archive you can follow these steps: