Pathogen Review

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pathogen.vim: manage your runtimepath

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What are the best plugin managers for vim?

Pros

Pro
git clone <URL> ~/.vim/bundle/<plugin-directory>

Done.

Pro
Simple, especially useful for offline install

Minimal additions to .vimrc file, doesn't try to download anything, so no internet connection needed.

Cons

Con
Doesn't directly manage plugins

Other plugin managers will install, enable, and disable plugins for you. This one doesn't. If it's in the bundle directory, it gets loaded, if it's not, it doesn't. This can make it difficult to debug which plugin is causing some unexpected behaviour, as there is no simple way to enable/disable loading a plugin.