Merge pull request #359 from theunraveler/master

Rewrite of plugin override

.gitignore

@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ locals.zsh
 log/.zsh_history
 projects.zsh
 custom/*
+!custom/example
 !custom/example.zsh
 cache

README.textile

@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ the "refcard":http://www.bash2zsh.com/zsh_refcard/refcard.pdf is pretty tasty fo
 h3. Customization
 
 If you want to override any of the default behavior, just add a new file (ending in @.zsh@) into the @custom/@ directory.
-If you have many functions which go good together you can put them as a *.plugin.zsh file in the @plugin/@ directory and then enable this plugin.
+If you have many functions which go good together you can put them as a *.plugin.zsh file in the @custom/plugins/@ directory and then enable this plugin.
+If you would like to override the functionality of a plugin distributed with oh-my-zsh, create a plugin of the same name in the @custom/plugins/@ directory and it will be loaded instead of the one in @plugins/@.
+
 
 h3. Uninstalling
 

custom/example/example.plugin.zsh

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Add your own custom plugins in the custom/plugins directory. Plugins placed
+# here will override ones with the same name in the main plugins directory.

oh-my-zsh.sh

@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ compinit -i
 
 # Load all of the plugins that were defined in ~/.zshrc
 for plugin ($plugins); do
-  if [ -f $ZSH/plugins/$plugin/$plugin.plugin.zsh ]; then
+  if [ -f $ZSH/custom/plugins/$plugin/$plugin.plugin.zsh ]; then
+    source $ZSH/custom/plugins/$plugin/$plugin.plugin.zsh
+  elif [ -f $ZSH/plugins/$plugin/$plugin.plugin.zsh ]; then
     source $ZSH/plugins/$plugin/$plugin.plugin.zsh
   fi
 done