Tools
These projects work closely with the vim-scripts.org mirror:
- vundle makes it easy to find
and install plugins without ever leaving the Vim environment.
- vim-update-bundles
is a small Ruby script that reads your .vimrc to determine which plugins
you want, then installs and removes plugins to match.
- vimmer is a command-line utility
and Ruby gem to install, update and remove Vim plugins.
- Also see the alternatives below. They don't use the mirror but
some of them make downloading scripts much easier.
These projects help manage the plugins once they're downloaded:
- Pathogen and its lightweight alternative
Unbundle allow you to store your scripts
individually in
~/.vim/bundle/ instead of one gigantic communal directory tree.
- tplugin
can be thought of as a mix of Pathogen and
AsNeeded.
Manual
Less software is more. If you want to manage your plugins
by hand, here are some docs.
Alternatives
These perform their own package management instead of using the
vim-scripts.org mirror.
Also see the question on StackOverflow.