Two New Vim Plugins

http://ithaca.arpinum.org/2011/11/22/vim-tweaking.html

by telemachos • 15 years ago

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jherdman• 15 years ago

Another alternative to Pathogen is Vundle (https://github.com/gmarik/vundle). I've been using this one for a while and really enjoy it.

SingAlong4• 15 years ago

ha, you beat me at it. I typed the post and got back to Campfire alerts at work and found yours :)

thing I love about Vundle is that it makes it really really simple to maintain your vim stuff. Your whole vim setup is down to just your .vimrc

telemachos3• 15 years ago

My initial feeling is that I prefer modular to bundled in this case. That is, I use shell scripts or small programs to mass-install or mass-update bundles, and I'm not sure I want all that information in my .vimrc. That said, I can definitely see why some people might love it, and Vundle itself looks interesting. I'll definitely take a look.

@SingAlong (I can't reply to your reply, so I'm replying here.)

> Vundle does exactly that - makes installs and updates easier.

I know. But that's what I meant by "I prefer modular to bundled in this case": I don't want all of that in one place (my .vimrc). I'm not saying Vundle is bad or that this is a wrongheaded way to do things. It just don't fit my preferences.

mutewinter• 15 years ago

Agreed. Vundle is amazing. I'm using it my vimrc (https://github.com/mutewinter/dot_vim/blob/master/vimrc#L18).

moonboots• 15 years ago

I've been trying to replicate the filetype specific bundles using pathogen's disabled bundle feature, so unbundle is a nice discovery. To allow for more flexibility such as enabling a bundle for more than one filetype but not all (e.g. just jvm languages), there can be a separate directory that contains all bundles, and these can be symlinked from ftbundle and bundle. This also allows disabling bundles that you're still testing.

graywh• 15 years ago

So, Unbundle sounds like Vim's ftplugins. Are there global plugins out there that work for a single filetype and interfere with other filetypes?

knewter• 15 years ago

There's an awesome ruby gem called vimpack (http://github.com/bramswenson/vimpack) that makes it easy to install any VimL plugins from github directly, a la `vimpack install git@github.com:user/neat_vim_plugin.git` It uses pathogen on the backside to load the plugins. It also provides easily cloning your repo for use elsewhere. It's how I manage my vim configuration amongs multiple different computers / other developers can use my repo as a starting point. I <3.

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