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• Managing plugins

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Managing plugins

Pathogen was the first popular tool for managing plugins. Actually it just adjusts the runtimepath (:h 'rtp') to include all the things put under a certain directory. You have have to clone the repositories of the plugins there yourself.

Real plugin managers expose commands that help you installing and updating plugins from within Vim. Hereinafter is a list of commonly used plugin managers in alphabetic sequence:

• neobundle
• plug
• vim-addon-manager
• vundle

Plug is my favorite, but your mileage may vary.