madx/micropack.vim

micropack.vim

Micropack is a tool to ease the installation and upgrade of your Vim/Neovim plugins. It is built on top of the native package system that is available in Vim 8/Neovim.

It makes a couple assumptions:

• You use Git to clone and update your plugins
• Managing your plugins isn't something you'll be doing every day but that you want it to require as few interactions as possible.

Here's what you get with Micropack:

• Automatic installation of missing plugins on startup
• A command to pull changes and remove unused plugins
• Configuration with a single function call in your .vimrc

Install

Put the micropack.vim file in your .vim/autoload folder:

$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload
$ ln -s $(pwd)/micropack.vim ~/.vim/autoload/micropack.vim

Setup

At the top of your .vimrc add a call to the micropack#init function, passing it the location of your local package and a list of plugins to install:

call micropack#init('~/.vim/pack/micropack', [
  \ 'https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim',
  \ 'https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim',
  \ 'https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-vim',
  \ 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround',
  \ 'https://github.com/tomtom/tcomment_vim',
  \ 'https://github.com/Raimondi/delimitMate',
  \ 'https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-vim',
\ ])

Updating plugins

To update your plugins run :MicropackUpdate from within Vim, it will automatically pull changes and remove plugins that are no longer defined in your micropack#init call.

If you want to inspect changes, Micropack will output the commit range that you should look at when using git log.