Vim plugin: allow using system black rather than virtualenv (#3309)

[etc/vim.git] / docs / integrations / editors.md

diff --git a/docs/integrations/editors.md b/docs/integrations/editors.md
index 318e0e295d0567481cf9738e3f0680c058a9194d..0778c6a72f1cf59d440af1ceef6bd6b458bef6e8 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/integrations/editors.md
+++ b/docs/integrations/editors.md
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Commands and shortcuts:
   - you can optionally pass `target_version=<version>` with the same values as in the
     command line.
 - `:BlackUpgrade` to upgrade _Black_ inside the virtualenv;
-- `:BlackVersion` to get the current version of _Black_ inside the virtualenv.
+- `:BlackVersion` to get the current version of _Black_ in use.
 
 Configuration:
 
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psf/black/stable/autoload/black.vim -o ~/
 Let me know if this requires any changes to work with Vim 8's builtin `packadd`, or
 Pathogen, and so on.
 
-This plugin **requires Vim 7.0+ built with Python 3.6+ support**. It needs Python 3.6 to
+This plugin **requires Vim 7.0+ built with Python 3.7+ support**. It needs Python 3.7 to
 be able to run _Black_ inside the Vim process which is much faster than calling an
 external command.
 
@@ -160,6 +160,18 @@ If you need to do anything special to make your virtualenv work and install _Bla
 example you want to run a version from main), create a virtualenv manually and point
 `g:black_virtualenv` to it. The plugin will use it.
 
+If you would prefer to use the system installation of _Black_ rather than a virtualenv,
+then add this to your vimrc:
+
+```
+let g:black_use_virtualenv = 0
+```
+
+Note that the `:BlackUpgrade` command is only usable and useful with a virtualenv, so
+when the virtualenv is not in use, `:BlackUpgrade` is disabled. If you need to upgrade
+the system installation of _Black_, then use your system package manager or pip--
+whatever tool you used to install _Black_ originally.
+
 To run _Black_ on save, add the following lines to `.vimrc` or `init.vim`:
 
 ```