vim Extending Vim Pathogen
Example
vim-pathogen is a runtimepath manager created by Tim Pope to make it easy to install plugins and runtime files in their own private directories.
Installing Pathogen
-
Put pathogen in
~/.vim/bundle(here with Git, but it's not mandatory):git clone https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen.git -
Add the following lines to the top of your
.vimrc:" enable vim-pathogen runtime bundle/vim-pathogen/autoload/pathogen.vim execute pathogen#infect()
- the
runtimedirective specifies the path to the autoload script ofvim-pathogen; execute pathogen#infect()initiates it.
Once initiated, Pathogen will automatically start a sweep through the folders in ~/.vim/bundle and load the plugin from each of them.
Using Pathogen
- Put the top-level directory of your plugin in
~/.vim/bundle/to make it available next time you start Vim. - Run
:Helptagsto index your new plugin's documentation.
Benefits
- Each plugin resides in its own directory under
~/.vim/bundle/. - Your
.vimrcstays clean from the configuration needed to load plugins.
The effort needed to "manage" a plugin is thus reduced to:
- put its top-level directory under
~/.vim/bundle/to install it, - replace its top-level directory to update it,
- delete its top-level directory to uninstall it.
How you perform those three actions (manually, via an automation tool, with Git/Svn/Hg/whatever…) is completely up to you.
