I think it's best to have a vim built-in standardized/official plugin manager. for an ordinary user it's often confusing to choose between many options - so better to have an official one (better have most features centralized/integrated) to start with ...
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:47 PM, ed jones <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with this. It comes down to freedom of choice really. I see no > reason to continue Pathogen, it too depends on git and NeoBundle does such > a better job. The others have their own places though. > > On 23/03/14 16:15, Michael Hernandez wrote: > >> On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine >>> to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there >>> are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating >>> plugins has become tedious. >>> >>> I am wondering what Vim users like about plugin managers. >>> Is there one that works best, that everybody should use? >>> Are there still features that no existing plugin manager offers? >>> >>> Vundle appears to be popular, someone mentioned it's better than >>> Pathogen. So nobody is using Pathogen? >>> >>> But then there is also NeoBundle. But not everybody has git installed >>> and it depends on that. >>> >>> And there also is vim-addon-manager. And Vimball. >>> >>> Is it fine to have a choice of plugin managers, or is this causing a >>> headache (for users and/or for plugin writers). If yes, then we should >>> pick one plugin manager and retire the others. >>> >>> I think it's fine to have a choice of manager. I was using Vundle >> because it was so easy but I've switched to NeoBundle because it is simple >> like Vundle, but can handle automation of post-install tasks such as >> compiling a auxiliary component for you. >> >> --Mike H >> >> > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" 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/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" 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/d/optout.
