When I first picked up vim I dealt with plugin functionality by hand. I have no idea how I did this, as doing it manually now seems insane. No doubt it was because I didn’t have many plugins.
I soon switched to
Pathogen
. For quite
a while after that I was using
Vundle
. Vundle was working well,
thanks to a very easy Plugin 'user/repo' syntax in my vimrc that made
plugins painless.
Recently, however, I’ve been seeing people start recommending
vim-plug
. It looked virtually identical
to vundle. The biggest differences were Plug 'user/repo' instead of Plugin 'user/repo' and :PlugInstall instead of :PluginInstall. Not worth
switching for this, even if vim-plug was a better designed tool.
This blog
post
changed my mind. He outlines several strong reasons, the most compelling of
which is the fact that
Vundle is no longer being maintained by gmarik, its
creator
. I’d had
fzf.vim
using vim-plug already, even
though I was using Vundle for the vast majority of my plugins. Coming across
this post gave me a good reason to cleanup my vimrc and rely solely on
vim-plug.
This commit shows the steps I took to migrate to vim-plug. So far so good.