Does Vim load plugins after loading vimrc?
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Solution
Yes. vimrc is loaded before plugins.
If you look at `:h initialization` you will find that step 3 is load vimrc and step 4 is load plugins.
You can also see that vimrc is loaded before plugins by looking at the output of `:scriptnames`. scriptnames lists all sourced scripts in the order they were sourced and vimrc is the first thing sourced. (Take a look at `:h :scriptnames`).
To fix the highlighting you just need to run the highlight commands after the plugin gets sourced. To do this you put files in the `after` directory of your `.vim` directory. (Take a look at `:h after-directory`)
So create the file `.vim/after/plugin/hicursorwords.vim` with the following contents
highlight clear WordUnderTheCursor
highlight WordUnderTheCursor cterm=bold ctermfg=254 ctermbg=160
This will cause the plugin to be sourced before you change the settings of the plugin.
(This of course assumes you don't want to edit the plugin)
Problem
I'm trying to override the highlight set in a plugin. The plugin does this: ``` highlight! link WordUnderTheCursor Underlined ``` Firstly, I'm not aware that `!` added to `highlight` does anything. But that's irrelevant. Doing stuff like this in the vimrc ``` highlight clear WordUnderTheCursor highlight WordUnderTheCursor cterm=bold ctermfg=254 ctermbg=160 ``` Does not appear to affect the behavior. Only when I directly modify the `Underlined` style (which feels wrong) in the vimrc, does the change apply. Is this proof that the plugin is being run after the vimrc runs? How might I unlink the style? I can't really tell if this is just the plugin doing something creative and unsupported, or if this is normal Vim behavior.