Re: Downloading Plugins

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:05:50AM -0700, Robert Cressman wrote:
> I have read several pages of articles/explanations/etc. on downloading
> plugins. Most involve Github.com. and provide the command to do so.

> As a novice, what I don't find, or understand, is where the "Git clone
> git://github.com/etc./etc." gets typed to accomplish this task. Is it
> in Vim, Git Bash, the command line of the system prompt??

> Any help would be appreciated. PLEASE remember, your explaining to a
> Vim novice who is struggling to comprehend all the "jargon" used by
> the experienced users!

To a novice I would recommend they stay way from plugins entirely until
they have a firm grasp of how vim works and are comfortable with it --
plugins are a very common cause of unexpected and undocumented behavior,
which gets harder to debug the more of them you have.

Then, if there is some plugin you feel compelled to experiment with even
after having been warned, the best place for novices to get plugins is
from the vim site: http://www.vim.org, where, for the vast majority of
plugins (where they are referred to as "scripts") installation is a
simple matter of dropping the item on your ~/.vim path and unpacking it.

If you still insist on cloning someone's git workspace, the git commands
are for the system prompt, but you have been warned.

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