3. Advanced Usage

This chapter provides some notes on more complicated usages of Envy.

Plugin Merging

The mergePlugins option can be used to merge plugin directories into symlink trees. This is useful because it reduces the number of directories that have to be added to neovim's runtimepath, and as a result it can significantly improve neovim startup times.

There are some restrictions:

• It may break some plugins outright.
• It will only merge plugins that are within the same 'bucket' in the plugin load order (so that dependent plugins are still loaded after their dependencies).
• It will likely cause issues in cases of colliding file names.

As such, it is not enabled by default. If you do enable it, you can disable merging on a per-plugin basis using the pluginRegistry.<pluginName>.mergeable option.