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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
by andyl 12y ago
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.
- zefei 12y agoCan you elaborate? I think all modern package managers (vundle/neobundle/vimplug) do a pretty good job.
- earldouglas 12y agoDitto Pathogen.
- nvk 12y agoSecond Pathogen
- Suryc011 12y agoYeah I'm pretty surprised by the OP's comment. Vundle works really well in my experience.
- andrewstuart2 12y agoI'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.
- andyl 12y ago> Can you elaborate? I think all modern package managers (vundle/neobundle/vimplug) do a pretty good job. The fact that there are multiple package managers is a problem. There should be just one package manager, managed by the core team. I use pathogen. I just browsed vundle/neobundle/vimplug and and you are right - they are a big improvement over pathogen. I'm gonna migrate to one of them. But still, IMHO, they can do better. What I see in vundle/neobundle/vimplug isn't as good as systems like NPM/RubyGems/Cargo/Hex.
- not_with_retard 12y agoGentoo handles this the best by integrating plugins as regular distro packages. It's brilliant.