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I'm always curious about vim but hardly use it beyond git commit messages and modifying files on a server. I'd be interested in getting better, but have an easier time setting up Sublime (and don't really have the time during the week to experiment).

I checked out vim plug and it seems really great, but is there a vim package manager that works similar to the package manager you can get in sublime? One that searches through available packages and allows you to install them that way?




> similar to the package manager you can get in sublime? One that searches through available packages

VAM[1] tries to. That is the only one I am aware of. But the list is managed manually, which in my opinion is always a bad idea.

I think the best hope for a MELPA-like vim plugin source is to use the vimawesome[2] API, but I'm not aware of any plugin manager that does so yet. vimawesome scrapes various sources and looks at publicly-available .vimrc files. This is a technical solution rather than a "human vigilance" solution. People want to post their vimrcs, so take advantage of that rather than trying to curate a massive list. Passive/organic is usually better than active/centralized[3].

[1] https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager

[2] http://vimawesome.com

[3] I know some people still have a soft spot for Yahoo directory, but whatever.




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