Why and How I Use Vim-Plug to Manage My Vim Plugins

Here's a quick overview of using Vim Plug and a few alternatives.

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Timestamped Table of Contents:

0:00 -- What we'll cover in this video
1:11 – Alternatives to using vim-plug
1:52 – Why I decided to use to vim-plug
2:05 – There’s the built-in plugin manager with Vim too
2:42 – The basic idea of adding plugins to your vimrc with vim-plug
3:16 – Installing vim-plug is painless, checkout the README on GitHub
3:35 – vim-plug makes it easy to reference which plugins you want installed
4:02 – Installing a plugin with the PlugInstall command
4:27 – Running PlugUpdate will update your existing plugins
4:32 – Vim makes it easy for you to control when plugins get updated
7:19 – Removing a plugin using the PlugClean command
8:15 – Recap on why I’m happy with vim-plug

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[bawdotla]

Fantastic. Very Helpful. Thank you for posting.

[krumpy]

Could you make a video of the inner workings of these vim-plugins. I‘m confused about writing the vim plugins in a different programming language than vim itself (maybe I don’t know) and then somehow we manage to link it to vim such that vim accepts these changes and keeps them as long as we wish. So I would like to know the steps the computer runs from the beginning, I guess the rc files have their own importance to that story. Ok I hope my problem is clear now. Thank you!

[arshiadehghan]

Hi I have recently saw your videos and I have already subscribed to you ; I have struggled to install vim plug when I copy the powershell command’s on git hub powershell gives me an error on line one, char one could you I was wondering if you could upload an video about it all of the other videos that I searched on YouTube have different commands on git hub should I just screenshot that and write it in powershell myself or what?