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vim-pathogen
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tpope / vim-pathogen

vim-pathogen

pathogen.vim: manage your runtimepath

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pathogen.vim: manage your runtimepath

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I love how easy pathogen (https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen) makes installing vim plugins from github. I always struggled with it in the past (and mostly avoided it) but…

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-08-04 15:30:27 UTC to 2018-06-30 16:48:11 UTC.

01232010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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telemachos·Aug 8, 2010
A few people have mentioned vimballs as a plugin solution. There are (at least) two other potential solutions for plugin handling: Pathogen and Vimana. Pathogen is what the blog author is actually using already, but he didn't realize it initially. He refers to a .vim repo on Github that "does some magic where [it] puts each plugin in its own directory under /~.vim/bundles/." What he describes here is based on Tim Pope's Pathogen: basically a plugin to manage all other plugins. I've been using Pathogen for a bit now, and it's excellent. Another solution is Cornelius Lin's Vimana, which I've heard very good things about, but I haven't tried. Some links below. http://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen http://tammersaleh.com/posts/the-modern-vim-config-with-path... http://ithaca.arpinum.org/2010/06/28/vim-updates.html http://github.com/c9s/Vimana
In The Great Vim / Textmate Debate: Opinion #56 - How to make Vim more accessible
telemachos·Aug 4, 2010
Currently, VimJolts is in under construction... It may be great, but it's hard to say. There's not yet a lot of there on the website. (Does it support uninstalling? How are installed items organized? Do items have to come from Github or also Vim.org?) Edit: The README on Github is a bit more informative (yes, uninstall is supported): http://github.com/vimjolts/vimjolts As an alternative, perhaps Pathogen (not really an installer, more like a style for managing Vimscripts) or Vimana (a full installer). http://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/vimana
In VimJolts: get the jolts on your vim

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