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Pathogen

Pathogen

Pathogen helps you to manage your runtime path with ease.

It lets install easily bundle for Vim.

Run the following commands :

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle && \
curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

Add this command to your .vimrc file :

execute pathogen#infect()

If you don't have any .vimrc file, type vim ~/.vimrc and paste this :

execute pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on

This is a very basic example. At this moment, every plugins will be extracted to ~/.vim/bundle and will be added to the runtimepath

If you wish to install a plugins like NERDTree, simply run this :

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

It will be added to the _runtimepath.

Curated ressource of Vim plugins : Vim Awesome