Re: Newbie Setup Advice

On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 11:58:54 PM UTC-6, ZyX wrote:
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> Pathogen is not a plugin manager.
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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.

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