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Re: Vim Awesome

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Post by andyl »

I love Vim and use it every day. But IMHO it suffers for a lack of a good package management system. I don't think VimL is up to the task.

I hope that NeoVim will resolve this. The package management systems for new languages like Rust and Elixir are wonderful. NeoVim should follow their example.

Re: Vim Awesome

#3

Post by zefei »

andyl wrote: post #2

I love Vim and use it every day. But IMHO it suffers for a lack of a good package management system. I don't think VimL is up to the task. I hope that NeoVim will resolve this. The package management systems for new languages like Rust and Elixir are wonderful. NeoVim should follow their example.

Can you elaborate? I think all modern package managers (vundle/neobundle/vimplug) do a pretty good job.

Re: Vim Awesome

#4

Post by earldouglas »

zefei wrote: post #3
andyl wrote: post #2

I love Vim and use it every day. But IMHO it suffers for a lack of a good package management system. I don't think VimL is up to the task. I hope that NeoVim will resolve this. The package management systems for new languages like Rust and Elixir are wonderful. NeoVim should follow their example.

Can you elaborate? I think all modern package managers (vundle/neobundle/vimplug) do a pretty good job.

Ditto Pathogen.

Re: Vim Awesome

#5

Post by Suryc011 »

zefei wrote: post #3
andyl wrote: post #2

I love Vim and use it every day. But IMHO it suffers for a lack of a good package management system. I don't think VimL is up to the task. I hope that NeoVim will resolve this. The package management systems for new languages like Rust and Elixir are wonderful. NeoVim should follow their example.

Can you elaborate? I think all modern package managers (vundle/neobundle/vimplug) do a pretty good job.

Yeah I'm pretty surprised by the OP's comment. Vundle works really well in my experience.

Re: Vim Awesome

#6

Post by stevebmark »

Be aware that many of the plugins on this list will conflict with many of the other plugins on this list. YouCompleteMe and NeoComplCache are a good example. Which one is better, and how do you know? Rhetorical question, neither are good compared to an actual IDE.

Re: Vim Awesome

#7

Post by andrewstuart2 »

stevebmark wrote: post #6

Be aware that many of the plugins on this list will conflict with many of the other plugins on this list. YouCompleteMe and NeoComplCache are a good example. Which one is better, and how do you know? Rhetorical question, neither are good compared to an actual IDE.

Linux is my IDE.

Re: Vim Awesome

#8

Post by _RPM »

stevebmark wrote: post #6

Be aware that many of the plugins on this list will conflict with many of the other plugins on this list. YouCompleteMe and NeoComplCache are a good example. Which one is better, and how do you know? Rhetorical question, neither are good compared to an actual IDE.

[Serious] Why would you use an IDE if you could use VIM?

Re: Vim Awesome

#9

Post by andrewstuart2 »

zefei wrote: post #3
andyl wrote: post #2

I love Vim and use it every day. But IMHO it suffers for a lack of a good package management system. I don't think VimL is up to the task. I hope that NeoVim will resolve this. The package management systems for new languages like Rust and Elixir are wonderful. NeoVim should follow their example.

Can you elaborate? I think all modern package managers (vundle/neobundle/vimplug) do a pretty good job.

I'm assuming he means something more like a single CLI utility for managing plugins from a centralized source. Like pacman, apt-get, npm, etc.

It doesn't exist per se, but install pathogen or vundle and you can pretend github is your centralized source, and git your package manager.

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