NEneeee·Sep 22, 2013
I think vundle is a lot nicer than pathogen. It supports all addons that support pathogen and makes installing and updating them much simpler.
https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
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Vundle, the plug-in manager for Vim
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| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 4 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
12 sourcesUm, what? There's a suite of 35 plugins used in Maximum Awesome. It's using Tim Pope's pathogen plugin[1], so they're all listed in .gitmodules instead of directly in the .vimrc or in an included bundle file as with Vundle[2].
[1] https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen
[2] https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
In Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum AwesomeManaged with https://github.com/gmarik/vundle here are the plugins I'd say I use every day:
https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter show git change/deleted lines
https://github.com/bling/vim-airline light weight, pure vimscript status line
https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim fuzzy file finder that mostly works
https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive very nice Git wrapper
https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic generic in Vim syntax checker plugin
https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim undo tree viewing
In Ask HN: What Vim plugins do you use?I also recommend Vundle [1]. It can install any plugin that can be installed with Pathogen.
[1] https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
In Show HN: vim-airlineVundle (https://github.com/gmarik/vundle) is good enough for me.
In Plans for Vim 7.4Great concept!
I'd suggest offering Vundle[0] as an alternative to Pathogen, or even replacing it altogether. I've found it to be a better system managing bundles by config in your vimrc and running :BundleInstall/Update/Remove/etc instead of git cloning into a bundle dir.
[0]: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
In Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment onlineI use Vundle to take this a step further
https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
In Vim Git GutterI recently switched to Vundle from Pathogen and it is a joy to use. Best part: you can bootstrap[1] Vundle from your .vimrc, turning the two-part "vimrc & plugins" configuration into a one-part "vimrc" configuration.
https://github.com/gmarik/vundle/blob/master/test/vimrc
In Vim After 11 YearsDoes Vundle <https://github.com/gmarik/vundle>; count as something fancy?
In Ask HN: Anything fancy in your .vimrc?Vundle works nicely as a package manager:
https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
In How SublimeText Bodybags vim+TerminatorI've tried Sublime Text several times, but each time I went back to Vim. The Vintage plugin just does not cut it for me; there're too many things that Vim does, that Sublime cannot do. I couldn't live with EasyMotion, RelativeNumber, the fantastic split window support, Gundo (Undo Tree), and much more.
Regarding the plugins he mentions, I see nothing special, all of that is also available as Vim plugins:
5. Vim Compatibility (Obviously in there)
4. Keybindings in JSON are indeed nice, though imap / and friends in Vimrc are ok, too. Using Vim+Python, one can also write Vim plugins in Python (import vim).
3. Vundle (https://github.com/gmarik/vundle) is a fantastic package manager and reads GitHub repositories likehttps://github.com/vim-scripts. Adding a new package is as simple as doing
:Bundle 'vim-scripts/YankRing.vim'
:BundleInstall
or :
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BundleSearch foo to find what's available.
The listed plugins:
Git -> try Fugitive.vim it is awesome
Emmett -> Also available for Vim
SublimeLinter -> Syntastic
SublimeCodeIntel -> Clang Complete
2. Vim has built-in support for sessions via the :mksession command. Or, just use the session.vim (https://github.com/xolox/vim-session) plugin, because it makes it even easier.
1. There's CommandT (https://github.com/wincent/Command-T), CtrlP (https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim), Waldo (https://github.com/jtaby/Waldo), FuzzyFinder (https://github.com/vim-scripts/FuzzyFinder). And most offer much more functionality than just file, directory, or buffer search.
I recently made the switch from Xcode to Vim (I mostly do Objective-C these days) by getting Clang Complete running (http://appventure.me/2013/01/use-vim-as-xcode-alternative-io...) so that I can use Vim full time and not only for web and python stuff. I couldn't be happier.
I've found Vundle to be an easier way of managing plugins compared to Pathogen:
https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
In FMacVim: Yet another Vim "distribution" (MacVim + plugins + configs) but simpler