On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 12:56:09 PM UTC-5, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Ben Fritz wrote: > > > On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 11:58:54 PM UTC-6, ZyX wrote: > > > > > > Pathogen is not a plugin manager. > > > > > > > I understand this sentiment, especially coming from someone such as > > yourself who works on a very fully featured plugin manager with > > abilities such as enabling or disabling plugins at runtime or > > automatically updating installed plugins. > > > > But...what should we call Pathogen? Granted, it doesn't really do any > > actual managing of plugins itself, but it enables you to do so much > > more easily. > > > > Without Pathogen, it is difficult to track down all files associated > > with a plugin. Thus it is mildly difficult to install and quite > > difficult to uninstall. Using Pathogen each plugin gets its own > > directory which is a large improvement over the status quo (although > > that's changing I understand from recent patches to the Vim core). > > > > Does that make Pathogen a "plugin management tool" rather than a > > "plugin manager?" I can't really think of a better term for a tool > > that helps you manage plugins yourself. > > I haven't actually used Pathogen myself, but I think the new 'packpath' > feature replaces most of it. > > Rewriting the example from Pathogen: > > mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/tpope/ever > cd !$ > git clone git://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible.git > > What would still be useful: > :Helptags update all doc/tags files > > And perhaps: > :PackUpdate find all git/mercurial repositories under > 'packpath' and update them. > > These can be done with Vim script. Any volunteers? > > -- > There are three kinds of people: Those who can count & those who can't. > > /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ > /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ > \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// > \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org ///
Can this actually replace Pathogen? It doesn't look like it deals with plugins without a "plugin" directory (so things like colors or ftplugins), does it? -- -- 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.
