![]() ![]() I personally found it a bit unintuitive and poorly documented, but some people swear by it. ![]() Unite.vim is an interesting attempt to combine the functionality of plugins like ctrlp, ack.vim and others into a single “omnisearch” interface. These plugins provide seamless integration for each within Vim, allowing you to easily jump to the code you’re searching on, opening new tabs or splits if you like. They’re much faster than grep or an IDE’s built in search. If you’re not using one of these tools for code search, you really should be. It provides fuzzy finding capabilities for Vim, to allow you to search for files in a similar way to Sublime Text’s “Go To Anything” bar.Īck.vim and Ag.vim are plugins to connect Vim with Ack and Ag respectively. There’s plenty of overlap in functionality here, but they’re all worth trying to see which ones fit your style.ĬtrlP is probably my most used Vim plugin. The plugins listed below show several approaches to file management. Vim’s built-in file management is pretty weak in some ways compared to editors like Sublime Text and TextMate. Let Vim Get Your Files In Orderįile management plugins are some of the most important plugins you can use with Vim. I’m including a few examples of each to get you started as you figure out which plugins make sense for you. There are a few main purposes for using plugins. What Can Plugins do for you?īefore you start installing plugins, it’s worth thinking about what you need from them. You can find full documentation for using Vundle in its Github repo, but trust me, it’s the best option out there for 99% of users. Since roughly 99% of plugins that most users will need are available from one of those sources, this is extremely convenient. It makes it easy to pull plugins from a variety of sources, but optimizes for Github, and Vim.org. So adding and removing plugins is just a configuration change, and it’s always easy to see which ones you’re currently using. It allows you to list the plugins you want to use in your vimrc file, then will pull them down and install them for you. Vundle improves on Pathogen in several ways. Vundle is an easy to use plugin manager that is compatible with the Pathogen format. It began a standardization process that now means pretty much any modern Vim plugin can be installed with Pathogen without modification.ĭespite Pathogen’s historical significance, in 2014 you should use Vundle, not Pathogen, to manage your plugins. Pathogen was the first plugin manager to make it relatively simple to include new plugins, by encouraging a standard directory format and installation process (using git repositories). That changed with the rise of Github and Tim Pope’s Pathogen. Early efforts to standardize a process didn’t go particulary well. To allow for download or installation, authors used a variety of compression formats, including a Vim specific Vimball format. vim folder or elsewhere and then sourced in ~/.vimrc. Instead, plugins were initially just placed into the. There’s never been an official plugin management solution, and unlike Sublime Text’s Package Control, there wasn’t a simple, easy to use solution that the community standardized. Plugin management for Vim has a bit of a troubled history. ![]() Plugin Management: Hello Vundleīefore you install anything, you’re going to need a strategy for managing your plugins. But they’re also extremely powerful, and I recommend that everyone who controls their development environment think about using at least a few. Plugins have costs they slow down file loads, can fill up the key mapping space, and add complexity for users. Don’t just toss every plugin you see recommended somewhere into your. Your key focus when it comes to Vim plugins should be identifying your needs and finding plugins to fit them. They allow Vim to support languages that didn’t exist the last time its core was updated, handle niche use cases that would never get solutions in the main Vim distribution, and also allow for powerful new features that benefit all users. They’re a powerful tool, and a key part of what has helped Vim remain relevant for 23 years, even as the computing world has changed dramatically around it. Vim plugins allow you to enhance, change, or add to Vim’s existing behaviors. First by making it easy to configure, and second by making it easy to extend. Vim tries to deal with situations like that in 2 ways. No matter how many cases you hit, somebody will want to do something you don’t support, will find your solution for their problem confusing, or they’ll try to use your tool in a way you never imagined. It’s impossible to design a tool that fits everyone’s workflow perfectly. Herding Lions Subscribe Articles Micro Blog About Me Currently Readingīen McCormick Learning Vim in 2014: Getting More from Vim with Plugins Learning Vim in 2014: Getting More from Vim with Plugins - Herding Lions ![]()
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