[StavrosK]

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

[5h]

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.

[StavrosK]

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

[5h]

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

[rane]

pathogen

[StavrosK]

Vundle's better.

[darklajid]

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).

[StavrosK]

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.

[wahnfrieden]

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.

[ch0wn]

> Not sure why you've been downvoted.

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

[darklajid]

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

[ibotty]

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

[slurgfest]

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

[johncoltrane]

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

[cduser]

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.

[jlgreco]

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.

[john2x]

I'd like to know this too.

[StavrosK]

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