Manage plugins with Vundle

Vundle is short for Vim bundle and is a Vim plugin manager.

Vundle allows you to

• keep track of and configure your plugins right in the .vimrc
• install configured plugins (a.k.a. scripts/bundle)
• update configured plugins
• search by name all available Vim scripts
• clean unused plugins up
• run the above actions in a single keypress with interactive mode

Vundle automatically

• manages the runtime path of your installed scripts
• regenerates help tags after installing and updating

Vundle installation requires Git and triggers git clone for each configured repository to ~/.vim/bundle/ by default. Curl is required for search.

Set up Vundle:

$ git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim

Configure Plugins:

Put this at the top of your .vimrc to use Vundle. Remove plugins you don't need, they are for illustration purposes.

set nocompatible              " be iMproved, required
filetype off                  " required

" set the runtime path to include Vundle and initialize
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()
" alternatively, pass a path where Vundle should install plugins
"call vundle#begin('~/some/path/here')

" let Vundle manage Vundle, required
Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'

" The following are examples of different formats supported.
" Keep Plugin commands between vundle#begin/end.
" plugin on GitHub repo
Plugin 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
" plugin from http://vim-scripts.org/vim/scripts.html
Plugin 'L9'
" Git plugin not hosted on GitHub
Plugin 'git://git.wincent.com/command-t.git'
" git repos on your local machine (i.e. when working on your own plugin)
Plugin 'file:///home/gmarik/path/to/plugin'
" The sparkup vim script is in a subdirectory of this repo called vim.
" Pass the path to set the runtimepath properly.
Plugin 'rstacruz/sparkup', {'rtp': 'vim/'}
" Avoid a name conflict with L9
Plugin 'user/L9', {'name': 'newL9'}

" All of your Plugins must be added before the following line
call vundle#end()            " required
filetype plugin indent on    " required
" To ignore plugin indent changes, instead use:
"filetype plugin on
"
" Brief help
" :PluginList       - lists configured plugins
" :PluginInstall    - installs plugins; append `!` to update or just :PluginUpdate
" :PluginSearch foo - searches for foo; append `!` to refresh local cache
" :PluginClean      - confirms removal of unused plugins; append `!` to auto-approve removal
"
" see :h vundle for more details or wiki for FAQ
" Put your non-Plugin stuff after this line 

Install Plugins:

Launch vim and run :PluginInstall

To install from command line: vim +PluginInstall +qall

References

• Vundle in Github