Re: Plugin/addon managers

On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:56 PM, ZyX wrote:

> Reply to message «Re: Plugin/addon managers»,
> sent 23:29:36 10 July 2011, Sunday
> by Eric Weir:
>
>> I get "command not found." So I should install git? ZyX said it should be
>> on my system, but that I shouldn't install it.
> I never said that, though my words were perhaps unclear. I meant that if you
> want to make VAM use git all you need is to install it (you don't have to know
> how to use it), but if you don't want (and I suggested that you should not want)
> it is not required.

It is not critical, but I'd like to test my understanding of your recommendations regarding git. You recommend that I not install it, for now I take it, because if it were installed VAM would in some instances install less-than-stable releases of plugins?

> Try to do the following:
> mkdir ~/.vam
> cd ~/.vam
> wget http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=13669 \
> -Ovim-addon-manager-0.4.3.zip
> mkdir vim-addon-manager
> cd vim-addon-manager
> unzip ../vim-addon-manager-0.4.3.zip
> rm ../vim-addon-manager-0.4.3.zip
> echo 'let g:vim_addon_manager={}' >> ~/.vimrc
> echo 'let g:vim_addon_manager.plugin_root_dir=expand("~/.vam")' >> ~/.vimrc
> then install any plugin (run something like
> :ActivateAddons VimOutliner
> in vim).

And thanks especially for this. I'm taking a sabbatical on deciding between the vimball approach and VAM. If when I come back to it I go for VAM, this will be the way I will do it.

Sincerely,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net

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