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What's the best way to manage Vim plugins? Some plugins use Vimball, but I read somewhere that it was seriously broken, and manually dropping each plugin into ~/.vim/ results in a mess of files that are near impossible to update or organise. Is there a plugin-manager for Vim that functions similarly to Linux package managers? Or can plugins be reorganised into their own directories to make administering them easier?
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vim-addon-manager vim-addons is a command-line plugin manager that you run outside of Vim. On Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu and their derivative distributions, you can add it by installing the package vim-addon-manager.
When Vim starts, it will load all plugins stored in /. vim/pack/my-plugins/start. You can give any name for the directory my-plugins . If you don't want the Vim plugin to start automatically at the start, create a subfolder opt under the plugin directory ( here ' my-plugins ') and add package there.
There is a new splendid tool, vundle, found here : https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
It is Awesome, like a wedding of pathogen with git.
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To reorganize plugins in their own directories, pathogen is quite popular.
See a blog post detailing the installation or a Vimcast from Drew Neil.
This is what I actually use. It basically puts each plugin in its separate directory, so you can easily add or remove them.
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