Re: Newbie Setup Advice

Ben Fritz wrote:

> On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 11:58:54 PM UTC-6, ZyX wrote:
> >
> > Pathogen is not a plugin manager.
> >
>
> I understand this sentiment, especially coming from someone such as
> yourself who works on a very fully featured plugin manager with
> abilities such as enabling or disabling plugins at runtime or
> automatically updating installed plugins.
>
> But...what should we call Pathogen? Granted, it doesn't really do any
> actual managing of plugins itself, but it enables you to do so much
> more easily.
>
> Without Pathogen, it is difficult to track down all files associated
> with a plugin. Thus it is mildly difficult to install and quite
> difficult to uninstall. Using Pathogen each plugin gets its own
> directory which is a large improvement over the status quo (although
> that's changing I understand from recent patches to the Vim core).
>
> Does that make Pathogen a "plugin management tool" rather than a
> "plugin manager?" I can't really think of a better term for a tool
> that helps you manage plugins yourself.

I haven't actually used Pathogen myself, but I think the new 'packpath'
feature replaces most of it.

Rewriting the example from Pathogen:

mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/tpope/ever
cd !$
git clone git://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible.git

What would still be useful:
:Helptags update all doc/tags files

And perhaps:
:PackUpdate find all git/mercurial repositories under
'packpath' and update them.

These can be done with Vim script. Any volunteers?

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