Excerpts from marcelspostbakje's message of Fri Dec 27 11:25:08 +0100 2013: > Airline is a pure vim-script alternative to powerline and thus is > lightweight and fast. Also an example why vim-script should not be > dropped. Bullshit. Just because something happens to exist which is fast does not proof that the language is fast enough for many (common?) use cases. http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/in-which-way-does-viml-suck.html The only reason why it still exists the way it is is because rewriting (it and plugins) would be so much work.
The only reason to keep is the amount of code which has been written. > I never used VAM, sorry Marc. NeoBundle does everything I want. Don't feel sorry. VAM does not allow installing older versions because this never was a problem. In fact its a design choice: Less possibilities to combine packages => less maintainance => less trouble. Nobody ever created a bug report about it (yet) - authors usually fix issues fast. If you really need a fixed well known state of your .vim, then just put everything into a git repository (VAM recently got some experimental support for recording this all), but due to post patches its not that nice at all .. Differences: - VAM supports a pool of known packages. Thus if a package is obviously replaced/outdated/unmaintained there is a way to tell the users. Thus this reduces questions about "why doesn't my old sander's snipmate fail with X" on irc. - VAM allows package maintainers to specify dependencies in a package description, thus installing it by name is enough, no need to declare dependencies in vimrc. - it allows arbitrary sources, git(hub),svn, etc. (Due to mirroring (vim-scriptsn) I agree this is unlikely to be such a big advantage) Anyway I've tried updating the matrix adding most NeoBundle features I found. If you feel something is missing drop me a note: http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html So thanks for telling me. So it looks like there is yet another competitive rewrite of plugin management. Marc Weber -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
