dein.vim

Dein.vim is a dark powered Vim/Neovim plugin manager.

Requirements
Quick start
- Unix/Linux or Mac OS X
Features
Future works (TODO)
- Options

Requirements

Vim 8.0 or above or NeoVim.
"xcopy" command in $PATH (Windows)
"git" command in $PATH (if you want to install github or vim.org plugins)

Note: If you use Vim 7.4, please use dein.vim ver.1.5 instead.

If you need vim-plug like install UI, you can use dein-ui.vim. https://github.com/wsdjeg/dein-ui.vim

Quick start

Note: You must define the installation directory before to use dein. The directory that you will want to use depends on your usage.

For example, ~/.vim/bundles or ~/.cache/dein or ~/.local/share/dein. dein.vim does not define a default installation directory. You must not set the installation directory as ~/.vim/plugin or ~/.config/nvim/plugin.

Unix/Linux or Mac OS X

Run below script.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Shougo/dein.vim/master/bin/installer.sh > installer.sh
# For example, we just use `~/.cache/dein` as installation directory
sh ./installer.sh ~/.cache/dein

Edit your .vimrc like this.

if &compatible
  set nocompatible
endif
" Add the dein installation directory into runtimepath
set runtimepath+=~/.cache/dein/repos/github.com/Shougo/dein.vim

if dein#load_state('~/.cache/dein')
  call dein#begin('~/.cache/dein')

  call dein#add('~/.cache/dein/repos/github.com/Shougo/dein.vim')
  call dein#add('Shougo/deoplete.nvim')
  if !has('nvim')
    call dein#add('roxma/nvim-yarp')
    call dein#add('roxma/vim-hug-neovim-rpc')
  endif

  call dein#end()
  call dein#save_state()
endif

filetype plugin indent on
syntax enable

Open vim and install dein

:call dein#install()

Features

Faster than NeoBundle
Simple
No commands, Functions only to simplify the implementation
Easy to test and maintain
No Vundle/NeoBundle compatibility
neovim/Vim8 asynchronous API installation support
Local plugin support
Non github plugins support
Go like clone directory name ex:"github.com/{user}/{repository}"
Merge the plugins directories automatically to avoid long 'runtimepath'

Future works (TODO)

Other types support (zip, svn, hg, ...)
Metadata repository support

Options

Some common options. For a more detailed list, run :h dein-options

Option	Type	Description
`name`	`string`	The name for a plugin. If it is omitted, the tail of the repository name will be used
`rev`	`string`	The revision number or branch/tag name for the repo
`build`	`string`	Command to run after the plugin is installed
`on_ft`	`string` or `list`	Load a plugin for the current filetype
`on_cmd`	`string` or `list`	Load the plugin for these commands
`rtp`	`string`	You can use this option when the repository has the Vim plugin in a subdirectory
`if`	`string` or `number`	If it is String, dein will eval it.
`merged`	`number`	If set to 0, dein doesn't merge the plugin directory.