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The Best Vim Plugin Managers

Use a Plugin Manager to Organize Your Vim Plugins

Mwiza Kumwenda
3 min readAug 4, 2022
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Vim is one of the best command-line editors you can lay your hands on. It is installed by default on Linux, macOS and other Unix systems.

Vim plugins allow you to extend Vim’s functionality according to your liking and workflow. You’ll need a good plugin manager to easily install and manage your Vim plugins.

The main functions of a plugin manager are: installing, updating, and general management of your plugins.

You’ll need to install Git on your PC to work easily with most plugin managers.

1. Vim-plug

Vim-plug is a lightweight and powerful plugin manager that is easy to set up and use. All configurations and plugins happen in a single file.

Vim-plug also has few commands that are easy to use and remember. You can install multiple plugins in parallel with this plugin manager.

Other great features include: On demand-loading, support review and rollback of updates, and minimal disk space usage.

The plugin manager is well documented, and its official GitHub page contains all the necessary info, for you to get started using the plugin manager.

2. pathogen.vim

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Mwiza Kumwenda
Mwiza Kumwenda

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