Using this command will update all the plugins. Well, in that case, use the :PlugUpdate command. But how do you update the plugins that are already installed? Your plugins are installed, whoooooo!!! Updating installed pluginsĪs you saw, the :PlugInstall command will install all the plugins that are defined in. Close Vim and re-open so that the plugins are cold-loaded. Once the installation is complete, you will see the line Finishing. Doing so will open up a pane to the left side and you will get a live view of the plugins being cloned and installed. To download and install the plugins, open Vim and then type the :PlugInstall command. But do not worry you don't need to manually download them. vimrc file, they must be downloaded and installed. I did the same thing to add the rust.vim and NERDTree Vim plugin.įinally, the last section- call plug#end()-is used to tell Vim that all the plugins are defined and that the plugin section has ended. Now, if you look back at the above code snippet, you will notice that user was replaced with 'junegunn' and repo was replaced with 'fzf.vim', the full line being Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim'. If you are somewhat familiar with Github, you will realize that the owner/author of the fzf.vim plugin is 'junegunn', and the project name is 'fzf.vim'. If you go to the given hyperlink it will open the project in Github. To understand what this means, we must go back to what plugins I said I would install.
The second, third and fourth lines have the pattern Plug 'user/repo'. This line tells Vim that we are beginning a section where we will define all the plugins that we want to install. There are three distinct sections in the code snippet above. vimrc file (or to init.vim for Neovim users): call plug#begin() To add a plugin, I will first add the following lines to my.
So let's see how to install and use a Vim Plugin manager. Vim plugin managerĪs I mentioned earlier, using a plugin manager for Vim pays off in the long run when you have multiple plugins. I will thus demonstrate how you can add plugins to Vim using a plugin manager. It may mess up your Vim plugins if you mistakenly clone the plugin in the wrong directory.
The manual method can get confusing and complicated when the number of plugins increases. The second way is to manually clone repositories in specific directories. This could be considered similar to a package manager, but for Vim. The easiest one is by using a Plugin manager.
There are two main ways one can add plugins to Vim. So let us see how you can add plugins to Vim. In fact, the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace has a Vim extension for VS Code it has over 4 Million installs.īut what about improving Vim itself? Well, that is possible too! Vim's functionality can be extended using "plugins". Being one of the most popular text editors, Vim also influences other modern text editors.