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Installing plugins

This chapter will start by introducing Vim plugins. Plugin management is a rather broad subject (and it's covered in Chapter 3, Follow the Leader - Plugin Management, as well), but we're starting out with just a few plugins, so we won't have to worry ourselves with that topic yet.

First, let's go through the one-time set up:

You'll need to create a directory to store plugins. Execute the following on the command line:

$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start

If you're using GVim under Windows, you'll have to create the vimfiles directory under your user folder (usually C:\Users\<username>), and then create pack\plugins\start folders inside of it.

You'll want to tell Vim to load documentation for each plugin, as it doesn't do so automatically. For that, add the following lines to your ~/.vimrc file:

    packloadall           " Load all plugins.
    silent! helptags ALL  " Load help files for all plugins.

Now, every time you want to add a plugin, you'll have to:

Find your plugin on GitHub. For example, let's install https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree. If you have Git installed, find the Git repository URL (in this case, it's https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git) and run the following:

$ git clone https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git     ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/nerdtree

If you don't have Git installed, or if you're installing a plugin for GVim under Windows, navigate to the plugin's GitHub page, and find a Clone or download button. Download the ZIP archive and unpack it into .vim/pack/plugins/start/nerdtree in Linux or vimfiles/pack/plugins/start/nerdtree in Windows.

Restart Vim, and the plugin should be available to use.