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by ninjay 5032 days ago
Thank you for showing how to use the plugins, most of these articles don't.

I looked at the rest of the site, bookmarked!

Can I make an article suggestion though? I'm a new(ish) vim user that is always on different systems. I need a way to quickly install/remove my vim settings and plugins. A tutorial how to do this would be awesome.

Take for granted vim and git are already installed, my ideal workflow would be something like this:

git clone git://blah.blah/my_settings.git ./my_settings/install.sh

Now I can run vim and my whole environment will be ready. If I make any changes I should be able to run git push to update the repository. Then I could run remove.sh to clean everything up.

Is there a system like this out there already?
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StavrosK 5032 days ago
As I posted above, there's Vundle:

https://github.com/gmarik/vundle

You just copy your .vimrc over and Vundle installs everything.

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ninjay 5031 days ago
Vundle seems like it only takes care of the plugins. I'm looking for a vim install system, like Python's setup.py.
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intractable 5031 days ago
The rage these days seems to be to keep your own dotfiles repo, complete with some kind of install mechanism.

My own is here [1] but it covers my whole homedir, not just VIM. I use Rake tasks (originally inspired by @holman, I believe) for install / update / clean.

There is a bootstrapping problem when using Vundle with many plugins [2]. The only way to have your Vundles install cleanly the first time is to split up .vimrc into two separate files, which is what I have done.

[1] https://github.com/anthonywilson/dotfiles

[2] http://www.gmarik.info/blog/2011/05/17/chicken-or-egg-dilemm...

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darklajid 5031 days ago
Can you elaborate on your requirements/wishes here?

For me my vim environment consists of my vimrc plus plugins. Granted, I pick plugins based on the "doesn't need extra steps to work" requirement.

vundle therefor restores my setup completely from a (potentially restored or managed in a git repository) vimrc file. What's missing for you?

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danbee 5032 days ago
Thoughtbot dotfiles (https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles) works something like that. I've branched it for myself and extended it.
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