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Any vim plugin post that doesn't contain Vundle is incomplete, in my opinion. How else are you going to manage all these plugins?

https://github.com/gmarik/vundle

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This, a hundred times over, after using vim for 4 years full time (e.g. pretty much 8 hours a day, and who knows how long before that intermittently) I finally took setup vundle, it was so worth all of the 600 or so seconds it took to get working.

Ten minutes is overstating it, even. I just downloaded the thing, pasted the other thing into my .vimrc, done.

I had to weed out all the crap that I had accumulated in ~/.vim/ over the years :)

pathogen

Vundle's better.

Not sure why you've been downvoted.

I agree with your vundle suggestion. I migrated from pathogen to vundle and would recommend that people using the former check out vundle again. Even if it's from the 'wrong author' (aka not from tpope).

The only difference I'm aware of (I haven't looked into it much) is that Vundle downloads plugins too, rather than just install them, but it's a pretty big difference when you're looking for a plugin manager.

It's huge because it lets me manage my plugins in source control much more easily than juggling submodules in git or whatnot. Instead I just have my plugins as lines in my vimrc.

> Not sure why you've been downvoted.

Just stating "X is better" without giving any reason is not particularly helpful.

Agreed, but he replied to a single word comment (=> worse)

but this single word was a very valid reply to the parents question. without needing any explanation.

pathogen requires you to roll your own submodule thingy. This is certainly feasible if you know git well, but vundle is still easier

Not sure where you got that idea: I use pathogen without involving Git at all.

OK, then you have some kind of shell script to do the downloads, or you do them all manually each time. These are not better alternatives

My ~/.vim is under version control (Git) but not every plugin is available through Git. Some plugin developers use Mercurial, others use Subversion or whatever and most only provide a .tar, a .zip, a vimball or even a single vim script. This Git myopia is seriously getting on my nerve.

it does when you want to have your vim configuration in git. and vundle might be easier then (not, that using git submodules is so extremly hard).

Yeah, all I need is a vimrc when I have vundle. I sync it using Dropbox and run BundleInstall on any of my new computers and I'm good to go with all the plugins.

Does Vundle allow you to just unzip plugins that aren't hosted anywhere into their own subdirectory somewhere inside your ~/.vim/ like Pathogen does?

This isn't clear from it's webpage.

I'd like to know this too.

As far as I know, it does. However, I'm not sure.

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