Vim Pck

A command-line tool to manage my vim plugins using the built-in package feature of vim8. (see :help packages)

Table of contents:

• Dependencies;
• Installation;
• How to use;
• Related projects;
• Note;
• License.

Dependencies

• git
• python 3.6

Installation

I like to install python command line programs in their own virtual environment to not clutter the system wide package directory. pipsi make it very conveniant to do so by automatically creating the venv and symlinking scripts to ~/.local/bin. If you don't use pipsi, you're missing out. Here are installation instructions.

Simply run:

$ pipsi install vim-pck

Alternatively, with pip:

$ pip install vim-pck

How to use

Configuration file

The main configuration file where the vim packages are specified. It's default location follow the XDG specification that is $XDG_HOME_CONFIG/vimpck/config or ~/.config/vimpck/config if XDG_HOME_CONFIG is not set.

[SETTING]
    # The built in package directory. See :help packages
    pack_path=~/.vim/pack
    # pack_path= ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack for neovim

[REPOSITORY]
    [[https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary]]
        package = common
        type = start
        freeze = True # Don't update vim-commentary when launching vimpck upgrade

    [[https://github.com/tpope/vim-dispatch]]
    # default location pack_path/vimpck/start/vim-dispatch

    [[https://github.com/mustache/vim-mustache-handlebars]]
        package = filetype
        type = start

    [[https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized]]
        package = colors
        type = start

Then run vimpck install to clone each remote repository in the correct package location. For exemple, vim-commentary --> ~/.vim/pack/common/start/vim-commentary

For neovim the package path should be set to ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack

Option	default value
pack_path	~/.vim/pack
package	vimpck
type	start
freeze	False

Usage

To use it (see vimpck --help):

• $ vimpck install : install plugins from the configuration file
• $ vimpck ls : list all plugins
• $ vimpck ls --start : list plugins that are automatically loaded
• $ vimpck ls --opt : list plugins that have to be loaded manually
• $ vimpck upgrade : update all plugins that are not freezed
• $ vimpck upgrade <plug>... : only update <plug> plugin. The plugin have to be specified using the following pattern package/type/plugin. You can easily complete the <plug> with the zsh completion script.
• vimpck rm <plug>... : remove one or more <plug>. Support zsh completion.
• vimpck rm -r <plug>... : remove one or more <plug> and also remove the corresponding section from the configuration file.
• vimpck clean : remove unused plugins

Environment variable

• VIMPCKRC: override default configuration location (xdg standard)

Example : export VIMPCKRC=/path/to/conf/name

Completion

A zsh completion function is provided in the completion folder of this repository.

To use it copy _vimpck somewhere in the $fpath environment variable of zsh and make sure the completion module of zsh is loaded by putting these following lines in your .zshrc:

autoload -U compinit
compinit

Related projects

• minpac: vim plugin
• infect: command-line tool build in ruby.
• pack: command-line tool build in rust.
• vim8-pack: command-line tool in bash.

Note

• Project generated with cookiecutter-python-cli

License

MIT license, see the LICENSE file. You can use vim-pck in open source projects and commercial products.