Disable plugin without deleting it's repo

[Chinmay Chhajed]

Hello,

How do I disable a plugin without deleting it's repository? Is there any command which can be added in .vimrc which will disable a plugin? It's very tedious to mv a plugin so as not to use it temporarily.
Thanks in advance.

[xaizek]

vim-pathogen/autoload/pathogen.vim

Lines 99 to 101 in e9fb091

 " Check if a bundle is disabled.  A bundle is considered disabled if its 
 " basename or full name is included in the list g:pathogen_blacklist or the 
 " comma delimited environment variable $VIMBLACKLIST. 

Appending ~ to a directory name also disables the plugin:

vim-pathogen/autoload/pathogen.vim

Line 103 in e9fb091

 if a:path =~# '\~$' 

[Chinmay Chhajed]

Can you show an example to add multiple plugins to g:pathogen_blacklist. I assume adding names to this also disables them

[xaizek]

Adding this before calling pathogen#infect disables both mentioned plugins for me:

let g:pathogen_blacklist = [ 'commentary', 'fugitive' ]

If you keep useless vim- prefixes, use something like this:

let g:pathogen_blacklist = [ 'vim-commentary', 'vim-fugitive' ]

[Chinmay Chhajed]

Thanks, that worked. Btw pls change fugitive to vim-fugitive to refer in future as I use fugitive and copied line in your previous command to check if it's working. After some time I relaised that it's not fugitive but vim-fugitive!