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How does vim-pathogen make anything easier?

Asked 2012-01-30T08:41:10.717
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If I understand it correctly, with pathogen it makes things easy because all you have to do to install/uninstall plugins is place or remove the plugin from a certain directory.

But isn't this what the plugin directory is for? How is it any better?

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It's better because you can store your plugin in isolation in the ~/.vim/bundle directory. That makes easier for you to have all your configuration directory under a version control system. Take a look at my vimfiles for example.

All the plugins I use are stored as a git submodule and this makes updates easy to handle. Furthermore, if you want to remove a plugin it's just a matter of removing the relative directory in the bundle one.

answered 2012-01-30T08:45:11.133

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