I have installed vim-nox as well as vim-latexsuite and vim-outliner on Ubuntu 12.10. There's nothing wrong with Vim but neither of the add-on packages does anything. What do I have to do to in order to enable them?
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Vim add-ons are not enabled for all users by default. To use an add-on, use vim-addons:
$ vim-addon-manager
# Name User Status System Status
editexisting removed removed
justify removed removed
latex-suite removed removed
matchit removed removed
vimoutliner removed removed
$ vim-addons install latex-suite
$ vim-addons install vimoutliner
I have tested various plugin managers for vim, and find pathogen the best of them all. I first tried vundle which was recommended on this site (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2458398/packageplugin-management-for-vim), but found it too complex.
What I wanted was a way to keep each plugin in it's own directory. Pathogen does just that: every plugin in ~/.vim/bundle is activated automatically.
pathogen is really very simple:
- you install the pathogen plugin
- add
call pathogen#infect()to .vimrc - when you want to try a package, you install it into a directory in .vim/bundle/... Pathogen will activate it automatically.
- to get rid of a package, you just remove it from .vim/bundle. I have a directory .vim/bundle.off where I move unused packages which I might use sometime later.
