auto installing vundle from your vimrc
Published - 2012-03-19 | 2min
You should be using vundle
Vundle is a vim plugin manager, ala pathogen.
Vundle allows you to specify in your vimrc what vim plugins you wish to load, and it’ll automatically download (git clone if possible) and enable vim plugins.
Vundle can get a name of a plugin as it appears in the vim plugin directory, a github :user/:repo style string, and even a full git url.
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Plugin 'Syntastic' "uber awesome syntax and errors highlighter
Plugin 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized' "T-H-E colorscheme
Plugin 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive' "So awesome, it should be illegal
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Vundle also updates your vim plugins with a simple command :
Vundle is awesome, it saves a lot of the manual work needed in pathogen.
Even more if your installing your vim plugins manually, oy vei.
However, there’s always the fuss of getting it installed on a fresh machine.
Adding these lines to your .vimrc, fixes that :
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" Setting up Vundle - the vim plugin bundler
let iCanHazVundle=1
let vundle_readme=expand('~/.vim/bundle/vundle/README.md')
if !filereadable(vundle_readme)
echo "Installing Vundle.."
echo ""
silent !mkdir -p ~/.vim/bundle
silent !git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim ~/.vim/bundle/vundle
let iCanHazVundle=0
endif
set nocompatible " be iMproved, required
filetype off " required
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/vundle/
call vundle#begin()
Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'
"Add your bundles here
Plugin 'Syntastic' "uber awesome syntax and errors highlighter
Plugin 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized' "T-H-E colorscheme
Plugin 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive' "So awesome, it should be illegal
"...All your other bundles...
if iCanHazVundle == 0
echo "Installing Vundles, please ignore key map error messages"
echo ""
:PluginInstall
endif
call vundle#end()
"must be last
filetype plugin indent on " load filetype plugins/indent settings
colorscheme solarized
syntax on " enable syntax
" Setting up Vundle - the vim plugin bundler end
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This will clone vundle and activate it, and install all your bundles (if vundle is not installed).
Disclaimer : Works on my machine ;)
This should work on any *nix machine, although windows 7 should cope with it too (not tested lately)
Enjoy!