Vim

Pathogen was the first vim plugin management system that I’ve known of. The contender is Vundle which seems to be inspired in it’s configuration syntax (and name) by Ruby’s Bundler. So let’s compare those two. Pathogen Pathogen’s workings are quite easy to grasp: each plugin is a directory within “~/.vim/bundle/”; pathogen traverses through the plugin list and includes each one of them. Let’s see a sample directory: [~/.vim]$ ls -l bundle/ drwxr-xr-x 5 andy andy 4096 Sep 8 22:20 ag drwxr-xr-x 5 andy andy 4096 Sep 8 22:20 ctrlp.vim drwxr-xr-x 7 andy andy 4096 Sep 8 22:22 syntastic drwxr-xr-x 13 andy andy 4096 Sep 8 22:23 ultisnips drwxr-xr-x 7 andy andy 4096 Sep 8 22:26 vim-airline ... It gets really powerful when you store you ~/.vim directory within a git repository and share it between multiple computers. If you use git submodules for each plugin you even get versioned plugins for free. ...