vim-addon-manager

> similar to the package manager you can get in sublime? One that searches through available packages VAM[1] tries to. That is the only one I am aware of. But the list is managed manually, which in my opinion is always a bad idea. I think the best hope for a MELPA-like vim plugin source is to use the vimawesome[2] API, but I'm not aware of any plugin manager that does so yet. vimawesome scrapes various sources and looks at publicly-available .vimrc files. This is a technical solution rather than a "human vigilance" solution. People want to post their vimrcs, so take advantage of that rather than trying to curate a massive list. Passive/organic is usually better than active/centralized[3]. [1] https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager [2] http://vimawesome.com [3] I know some people still have a soft spot for Yahoo directory, but what

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'll add https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager (Not to be confused with http://packages.debian.org/sid/vim-addon-manager -- and yes, the author of the former got permission from the author of the latter to re-use the name.)

There are other similar solution for handling "bundles" (or plugins distributed as git repositories): tpugin (on demand path manipulation): http://github.com/tomtom/vimtlib/blob/master/macros/tplugin.... scriptmanager: http://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager