danishprakash / vim-zen

Barebones Vim Plugin Manager

vim-zen

Barebones Vim Plugin Manager

Features

• Does 3 things and does them well - Install, Remove, Update
• Parallel install & update using Python multithreading.
• Easy setup and simple usage.

Installation

Put the zen.vim file into the autoload directory.

Unix

Neovim

curl -o ~/.local/share/nvim/site/autoload/zen.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danishprakash/vim-zen/master/zen.vim

Vim

curl -o ~/.vim/autoload/zen.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danishprakash/vim-zen/master/zen.vim

Usage

• Add a vim-zen section in your vimrc.
• Add call zen#init() method at the beginnning of the section.
• Add plugins using the Plugin command.
• Reload .vimrc.
• Run ZenInstall from within vim.

Example vim-zen section

" begin section
call zen#init()
Plugin 'junegunn/goyo.vim' 
Plugin 'https://github.com/danishprakash/vimport'
" end section

See this for reference.

Commands

1. ZenInstall: Install plugins.
2. ZenUpdate: Update plugins.
3. ZenDelete: Remove unused plugins.

Why?

I wanted something really simple, all other plugin managers out there did the things that I wanted along with other stuff. I wanted a plugin manager that helped me install, remove, and update the plugins I use.

Links

• Changelog Nightly (21/6)

License

MIT