Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-04-16 Thread ping song
really nice site! will read through..thanks! On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: I've already said that most wolk reasonably well for most common use cases. Smaller differences are documented here (maybe this is incomplete):

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-04-08 Thread Marc Weber
I've already said that most wolk reasonably well for most common use cases. Smaller differences are documented here (maybe this is incomplete): http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/index.html Try them all, and help keeping that page up to date. Marc Weber -- -- You received this message from the

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-04-07 Thread ping song
forks: any conclusions/progress about the discussion? I just got a new PC and I'd like to try one of the plugin manager way to start my vim journey on it. previously I only did that manually in years. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Nikolay Pavlov zyx@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 27, 2014

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-04-07 Thread ping song
I meant folks...:) On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:54 PM, ping song songpingem...@gmail.com wrote: forks: any conclusions/progress about the discussion? I just got a new PC and I'd like to try one of the plugin manager way to start my vim journey on it. previously I only did that manually in

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-27 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Steve Litt's message of Tue Mar 25 21:40:51 + 2014: The VimOutliner project is basing their next installer on Pathogen, so as a VimOutliner user, I'd love to see greater Vim support for Pathogen. Why can't we collect those requirements and allow plugin managers to implement

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-27 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Nikolay Pavlov's message of Tue Mar 25 20:32:13 + 2014: With VAM you can ask to update specific plugin only. Action update all plugins for which there is a newer version available is exactly what VAM does if you disallow using VCS sources (otherwise it may switch source types

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-27 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 27, 2014 7:31 PM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: Excerpts from Nikolay Pavlov's message of Tue Mar 25 20:32:13 + 2014: With VAM you can ask to update specific plugin only. Action update all plugins for which there is a newer version available is exactly what VAM does if

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread glts
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 4:34:19 PM UTC+1, Bram Moolenaar wrote: At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating plugins has become

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread glts
Hi Marc, On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:58:52 AM UTC+1, MarcWeber wrote: Eg massive downvoting happend on the vam vim.sf.net plugin page for whatever reason (drchip removed his plugins form vim.sf.net for a similar reason). This is just a reminder for those who missed the happenings in the

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread BPJ
Ben Fritz wrote: I think simple and easy runtime path management like Pathogen offers would be a great addition to Vim and would not be very controversial. I understand that all the other plugin managers build on top of something like this to allow easier

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Matteo Cavalleri
Currently, the official 'canonical plugin source' is the scripts site on vim.org. If you listen to the community, you will hear that some good people avoid vim.org because it isn't up to standards. And I think they're right. I am very sympathetic to vim.org being the canonical source for

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 25, 2014 2:27 PM, BPJ b...@melroch.se wrote: Ben Fritz wrote: I think simple and easy runtime path management like Pathogen offers would be a great addition to Vim and would not be very controversial. I understand that all the other plugin managers

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Marc Weber
dowvoting due to textfile The main issue is lack of interaction. Getting down votings for unkown reason is bad for everybody. So this hurts a lot IMHO. issue trackers are a lot better, because they create a soft force improving / documenting the issues. The text file contains: linux:

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread glts
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:05:03 PM UTC+1, MarcWeber wrote: dowvoting due to textfile The main issue is lack of interaction. Getting down votings for unkown reason is bad for everybody. So this hurts a lot IMHO. issue trackers are a lot better, because they create a soft force improving /

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread LCD 47
On 25 March 2014, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: [...] About github vs vim.sf.net: The best thing would be allowing @ vim.sf.net to just register a github url *and be done*. vim.sf.net could then just forward to github generating a .zip file for download. Simple change, but huge

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Marc Weber
@David me saying you're wrong: You're right. Thanks for facing me. About APIs: The main problem is that you cannot just access the gitub api, because accessing the internet from PHP scripts is not allowed. Code like this fails: echo file_get_contents('http://google.de'); from #sourceforge its

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread BPJ
2014-03-25 11:33, Nikolay Pavlov skrev: Please point where anybody said a word about automatic updating. VAM and Vundle do not do this for sure. Well excuse me for getting the impression from statements like this from Ben in the mail I quoted: Vundle and the rest take too much config for my

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 25, 2014 10:07 PM, BPJ b...@melroch.se wrote: 2014-03-25 11:33, Nikolay Pavlov skrev: Please point where anybody said a word about automatic updating. VAM and Vundle do not do this for sure. Well excuse me for getting the impression from statements like this from Ben in the mail I

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:27:19 +0100 BPJ b...@melroch.se wrote: Ben Fritz wrote: I think simple and easy runtime path management like Pathogen offers would be a great addition to Vim and would not be very controversial. The VimOutliner project is basing their

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread LCD 47
On 23 March 2014, ZyX zyx@gmail.com wrote: [...] A list of things I would expect from a plugin manager: 1. Installing plugins in a FHS-compatible fashion (i.e. in /usr/share/vimfiles/…). Target directory must be configurable. Reason: to respect package maintainers from various

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Marc Weber
To sum up: If people would have known about this page this thread would have been shorter: http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html (just add your own comments if you think the article is incomplete, you can edit without registering) I'd like to remind that I posted

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 24, 2014 11:08 AM, LCD 47 lcd...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2014, ZyX zyx@gmail.com wrote: [...] A list of things I would expect from a plugin manager: 1. Installing plugins in a FHS-compatible fashion (i.e. in /usr/share/vimfiles/...). Target directory must be

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 24.03.14 10:17, Marc Weber wrote: Anyway situation is as is - which is why I at least thought we could try to provide a common interface so that at least install instructions could be shared https://bitbucket.org/vimcommunity/vim-pi/issue/91/common-interface-for-most-plugin-managers That

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread lith
Vundle appears to be popular Regarding vundle: I'm no vundle user but I recently stumbled over this blog entry while googling for something else: http://gmarik.info/blog/2014/02/04/why-i-stopped-contributing-to-vundle Given the commits list though, it seems vundle is still alive and kicking:

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-03-24, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: On Mar 24, 2014 11:08 AM, LCD 47 wrote: On 23 March 2014, ZyX wrote: 13. Ability to list and remove unused plugins. Reason: it is just convenient. Low priority. That would imply keeping stats about when each plugin is actually

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread LCD 47
On 24 March 2014, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2014-03-24, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: On Mar 24, 2014 11:08 AM, LCD 47 wrote: On 23 March 2014, ZyX wrote: 13. Ability to list and remove unused plugins. Reason: it is just convenient. Low priority. That would

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 24, 2014 10:19 PM, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2014-03-24, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: On Mar 24, 2014 11:08 AM, LCD 47 wrote: On 23 March 2014, ZyX wrote: 13. Ability to list and remove unused plugins. Reason: it is just convenient. Low priority.

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread LCD 47
On 24 March 2014, Nikolay Pavlov zyx@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 24, 2014 11:08 AM, LCD 47 lcd...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2014, ZyX zyx@gmail.com wrote: [...] 13. Ability to list and remove unused plugins. Reason: it is just convenient. Low priority. That would imply

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 24, 2014 10:53 PM, LCD 47 lcd...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 March 2014, Nikolay Pavlov zyx@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 24, 2014 11:08 AM, LCD 47 lcd...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2014, ZyX zyx@gmail.com wrote: [...] 13. Ability to list and remove unused plugins. Reason: it is

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 24, 2014 10:50 PM, LCD 47 lcd...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 March 2014, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2014-03-24, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: On Mar 24, 2014 11:08 AM, LCD 47 wrote: On 23 March 2014, ZyX wrote: 13. Ability to list and remove unused plugins.

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-03-24, LCD 47 wrote: On 24 March 2014, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2014-03-24, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: On Mar 24, 2014 11:08 AM, LCD 47 wrote: On 23 March 2014, ZyX wrote: 13. Ability to list and remove unused plugins. Reason: it is just convenient. Low priority.

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 24, 2014 11:22 PM, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2014-03-24, LCD 47 wrote: On 24 March 2014, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2014-03-24, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: On Mar 24, 2014 11:08 AM, LCD 47 wrote: On 23 March 2014, ZyX wrote: 13. Ability to list and

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Ben Fritz
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 10:34:19 AM UTC-5, Bram Moolenaar wrote: At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating plugins has

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-24 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Gary Johnson's message of Mon Mar 24 18:19:54 + 2014: How do you know whether or not a plugin is actually used? VAM calls the command: VAMUninstallNotLoadedPlugins (old name: UninstallNotLoadedAddons) Thus VAM cannot and does not know - well - even VAM has an alternative

Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread Bram Moolenaar
At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating plugins has become tedious. I am wondering what Vim users like about plugin managers.

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread Michael Hernandez
On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Bram Moolenaar b...@moolenaar.net wrote: At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating plugins

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread ed jones
I agree with this. It comes down to freedom of choice really. I see no reason to continue Pathogen, it too depends on git and NeoBundle does such a better job. The others have their own places though. On 23/03/14 16:15, Michael Hernandez wrote: On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Bram Moolenaar

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread ping song
I think it's best to have a vim built-in standardized/official plugin manager. for an ordinary user it's often confusing to choose between many options - so better to have an official one (better have most features centralized/integrated) to start with ... On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:47 PM, ed

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread Chris Lott
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:47 AM, ed jones spong...@gmail.com wrote: I see no reason to continue Pathogen, it too depends on git How so? c -- Chris Lott ch...@chrislott.org -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread ed jones
Indirectly, I guess. There's still no reason to continue it. On 23/03/14 17:04, Chris Lott wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:47 AM, ed jones spong...@gmail.com wrote: I see no reason to continue Pathogen, it too depends on git How so? c -- Chris Lott ch...@chrislott.org -- -- You received

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread lith
Is it fine to have a choice of plugin managers, or is this causing a headache (for users and/or for plugin writers). If yes, then we should pick one plugin manager and retire the others. I'm glad you picked this topic up. I personally use simple shell scripts to keep the git repos up to

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread LCD 47
On 23 March 2014, ed jones spong...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/03/14 17:04, Chris Lott wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:47 AM, ed jones spong...@gmail.com wrote: I see no reason to continue Pathogen, it too depends on git How so? Indirectly, I guess. There's still no reason to continue it.

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread A. S. Budden
On 23 March 2014 15:34, Bram Moolenaar b...@moolenaar.net wrote: At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating plugins has become

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread ZyX
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 7:34:19 PM UTC+4, Bram Moolenaar wrote: At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating plugins has become

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread Mun
Hi Bram, et al., On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 08:34 AM PDT, Bram Moolenaar wrote: BM BM At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine BM to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there BM are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread Israel Chauca
On 3/23/14, 11:34 AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating plugins has become tedious. I am

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-23 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 24, 2014 3:50 AM, Israel Chauca israelvar...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 3/23/14, 11:34 AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there are so many plugins and they get