When comparing Pathogen vs vim-plug, the Slant community recommends vim-plug for most people. In the question“What are the best plugin managers for vim?” vim-plug is ranked 1st while Pathogen is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose vim-plug is:
Vim-plug just requires a single file download to start using, and also requires nothing extra be added to your Vimrc outside of the function calls to start/end defining plugins.
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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.
Pro Simple to set up and use
Vim-plug just requires a single file download to start using, and also requires nothing extra be added to your Vimrc outside of the function calls to start/end defining plugins.
Pro Lightweight
Vim-plug uses a fast parallel installation/update process and uses on demand loading for faster startup times.
Pro Parallel plugin installation
Pro Recently updated
Active Repo
Pro Fast
Pro Supports post-update hooks
vim-plug allows you to automatically run arbitrary shell commands after installing or updating a plugin, which is useful if the plugin needs to be compiled or make install
ed after an update.
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.
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