You don't "need" to do this way - it can be done without manual openmw.cfg editing:
* Indoranyon_Map_Marker.omwaddon can simply be dropped into the "Data Files" folder, though I personally recommend the "one data folder per mod" approach. * .omwaddon and .esp files can similarly be enabled/disabled and ordered in the OpenMW launcher in the "Data Files" tab.
The link I provided (in the Description at the start of my Installation section) leads to "How To Install and Use Mods" whose first sentence is (my emphasis):
"The following is a detailed guide on how to install and enable mods in OpenMW using best practices."
What I said was needed to be added to openmw.cfg was in line with these "best practices".
As I don't recommend the alternative and, apparently, neither do you, I believe we're both on the same page here.
I mostly pointed it out for someone that is doing light/beginner modding and might not yet want to delve into having to deal with config files. The latter may require the download/configuration of a code/text editor to work in "plain text" mode and load/save in UTF-8.
For anyone in that situation, I came across a YouTube video a few years ago that explained how to set up OpenMW. I recall it went into some detail about configuring openmw.cfg and showed how to do it using, if I remember correctly, Notepad++. That may be appropriate if you're running MSWin; you'll want something else for other platforms. I can see that quite a few tutorials are currently available for various operating systems, so choose whatever suits. None of them are very long -- mostly under 20 mins -- so it's probably worthwhile watching a few and picking the best tips from each.
[For what it's worth, I use vim. It's a very powerful editor, but more of a professional programmer's tool. If you're unfamiliar with it, you'll need to spend some time learning how to use it. I'm not dissuading usage -- it's the main text editor that I've been using for decades -- but I'm just giving fair warning that it's not something that you can dive into and start using almost immediately. It's a standard command line utility with most UNIX-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc.) and GUI versions are available for an even wider range of platforms (see Downloading Vim).]
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I would like to make it as an .esp-file
> data="path/to/the/location/of/this/mod"
> content=Indoranyon_Map_Marker.omwaddon
You don't "need" to do this way - it can be done without manual openmw.cfg editing:
* Indoranyon_Map_Marker.omwaddon can simply be dropped into the "Data Files" folder, though I personally recommend the "one data folder per mod" approach.
* .omwaddon and .esp files can similarly be enabled/disabled and ordered in the OpenMW launcher in the "Data Files" tab.
The link I provided (in the Description at the start of my Installation section) leads to "How To Install and Use Mods" whose first sentence is (my emphasis):
What I said was needed to be added to
openmw.cfgwas in line with these "best practices".As I don't recommend the alternative and, apparently, neither do you, I believe we're both on the same page here.
For anyone in that situation, I came across a YouTube video a few years ago that explained how to set up OpenMW. I recall it went into some detail about configuring
openmw.cfgand showed how to do it using, if I remember correctly, Notepad++. That may be appropriate if you're running MSWin; you'll want something else for other platforms. I can see that quite a few tutorials are currently available for various operating systems, so choose whatever suits. None of them are very long -- mostly under 20 mins -- so it's probably worthwhile watching a few and picking the best tips from each.[For what it's worth, I use vim. It's a very powerful editor, but more of a professional programmer's tool. If you're unfamiliar with it, you'll need to spend some time learning how to use it. I'm not dissuading usage -- it's the main text editor that I've been using for decades -- but I'm just giving fair warning that it's not something that you can dive into and start using almost immediately. It's a standard command line utility with most UNIX-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc.) and GUI versions are available for an even wider range of platforms (see Downloading Vim).]