Questions tagged [plugin-vim-plug]
Questions about vim-plug: a minimalist plugin manager.
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Gruvbox theme for Airline resets every time Vim closes
I have installed gruvbox using vim-plug, then I installed Airline and set the theme following the recommendations. But every time I close Vim and open it, the theme for Airline is reset to default and ...
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How do I set a final size to a split in vim
I fond out how to resize a split on the fly in Vim but I would like to have a fixed size to some split (like the NERDTree split it always has the same size). So basically I am using Vim Plug as a ...
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Order in runtimepath of Vim packages or similar plug-in managers
Vim packages work by updating 'runtimepath' to include the top directories of the plug-ins in each package (and also the after/ directory), but the Vim documentation on packages isn't absolutely clear ...
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Can you use plugins inside of your vimrc?
I recently learned the very hard way that vim-plug will only load plugins AFTER the vimrc is completely sourced: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21322520/why-wont-vim-recognise-a-plugin-command-in-...
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VimPlug, Vim won't load plugins: E117: Unknown function : plug#begin;
On Macbook Pro, Terminal, standard Vim, VimPlug
When I start vim I get the following message:
Error detected while processing /Users/me/.vimrc:
line 159:
E117: Unknown function: plug#begin
In my ....
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Plugin management on Windows?
I am really new to vim and have been trying to use it more over the past months. Issue is I cannot get the plugins to work, I have followed the steps on vim plug github and some other sites.
I am on ...
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vim-plug: install plugins on startup not working properly on Ubuntu
per the recommendation in the vim-plug wiki: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/extra, I've added the following snippet to my vimrc:
" Install missing plugins on Vim startup
autocmd VimEnter *
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How can I create a customized vim [in my own pc] and could install it on every server that I use in future?
I like my own plugin full vim that I use, but every time I ssh to a server I have to reinstall those plugins and customizations.
Does anyone have an easy method to install my own customized vim on ...
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coc not working in latest vim
I've installed coc following the instruction, using Vim-Plug (before that I did it without installing yarn and with kite still (partially) installed. I got a 'javascript file not found' error So I ...
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YouCompleteMe does not work as expected
My process so far:
Brew unlink vim
Brew install macvim
Brew link macvim
Installing YCM with vim-plug.
Running ./install.py from YCM folder.
mkdir ycm_build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" .
~/.vim/Plugged/...
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Same plugins for every .vimrc file (vim-plug)
I have a question regarding the following situation:
I want to use a default .vimrc and a vimrc (name it .vimrc2) for a special purpose.
However, when I start vim with
vim -u ~/.vimrc2
I have the ...
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Unable to conditionally test for presence of a plugin command & invoke it
I have the following code in my vimrc
if exists(":Goyo")
augroup LatexGoyo
autocmd!
autocmd BufReadPost,BufNewFile *.tex Goyo
augroup END
else
augroup LatexColumnSet
...
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Vim-plugin error which goes away when using sudo
After resisting for a bit, I decided to try the plugin manager vim-plug.
It seemed to work well when installing the GhostText plugin, except that I had to do the installation in a sudo nvim session, ...
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Vim-Plug: Can't install plugins. Invalid plug directory
I'm new to vim. The problem happens when I type :PlugInstall I get:
[vim-plug] Invalid plug directory: /Users/joqsan/.vim/plugged. Try to call plug#begin with a valid directory
This is how I ...
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Detecting whether colorscheme is available [duplicate]
How can I detect whether a color scheme installed via a vim-plug plug-in is available?
For context, I'm trying to automate my Vim setup on a new machine, pulling the vimrc from a git repository. The ...
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How do I pass a full filepath to a function in a Vim plug-in?
I have an exe program that checks for certain errors in a text file.
I want to create a shortcut (like \+M) to run that exe file against the text file.
My exe file's path is C:\Users\xyz\Documents\...
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What are suggested ways to modify a plugin that was installed by vim-plug?
Suppose there is a particular plugin that I wanna tweak part of its functionality (and it is not under active development anymore), I'd like to test the modified version without pushing to my forked ...
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Why does `vim-plug` add the .vim file to .vim/autoload and not .vim/plugin?
I am new to Vim plugins and am looking to use the vim-plug plugin manager. The installation instruction advises me to download the .vim file and add it to ~/.vim/autoload.
curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/...
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Vim Plugin Path Issue
I'm trying to get Vim all decked out with some fancy plugins on my work laptop but I am running into some issues.
Using echo &rtp I can see that Vim will look in several directories for startup ...
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How can I list the plugins currently *active* when using VIM-Plug?
Oftentimes I'll want to put remaps in my .vimrc that use plugin commands. When a plugin happens to not be installed, these remaps will result in errors. A simple workaround would be to put an if-...
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How to install fzf.vim with Vundle?
I use Vundle to manage my vim plugins. However I just came across fzf, and its installation instructions require that I use vim-plug.
How do I make this happen? Wouldn't there be a conflict between ...
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vim not loading vim-plug plugins
Vim is not loading vim-plug plugins. When I run vim and do :PlugInstall, it installs the plugins and applies them:
This is what happens when I quit vim-plug interface using :q, vim goes back to ...
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Using Vim-Plug with portable version of gvim (windows)
My university does not (quite understandably) provide administrative rights to users on their public machines (which run only MS Windows 7 OS). As a regular vim user, I use a lot of plugins (...
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Can't make vim-plug work [closed]
I'm using Ubuntu 17.04. I've decided to start using Vim, so I needed a plugin manager. I found vim-plug and I really liked it. But I can't make it work. I followed the installation guide:
curl -fLo ~/...
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Sourcing Vimplug plugins in a separate file
I am using the minimalistic Vimplug as the plugin manager for Vim.
Installing plugins through Vimplug involves putting the following code inside the vimrc file.
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
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Neovim: plugins installed but not working
I am using Ubuntu 16.04. I installed Neovim using apt-get. I downloaded the plug.vim script & put it into the autoload folder in ~/.config/nvim. I put the following in my init.vim:
call plug#...
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VimPlug unknown function plug#begin in NeoVim
Recently I decided to switch from Vundle to VimPlug, and I noticed that after installing it...
putting the plug.vim in my autoload directory ~/.vim/autoload/
and making sure that my vim and neovim ...
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Why won't vim-plug install my plugins? [typo] [closed]
I'm pretty new to Vim and vim-plug and I can't get the latter to install my plugins.
I think I've set everything up—see my files below. But when I start Vim and enter :PlugStatus, it shows a blank ...
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Can I get vim-plug to skip installing a plugin, based on some Vimscript condition?
I'm using vim-plug for managing plugins, primarily for its lazy-loading capabilities. This lets me do:
Plug 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe', { 'do': 'python2 ./install.py --clang-completer --gocode-...
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Unable to start Vdebug
I am unable to start Vdebug. I am using Vim-Plug to handle my plugins, :PlugStatus on a PHP file gives a status of OK. However, when I press F5, Vdebug is not started.
Does anyone has any idea what ...
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What does an `autocmd User` do?
I switched to vim-plug recently. In the README, there's this snippet for using YouCompleteMe with vim-plug:
" Code to execute when the plugin is loaded on demand
Plug 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe', { 'for'...
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Conceal not working with tex files and vim-plug
Normally, :syn match Entity "e" conceal and :set conceallevel=3 results in all es being concealed. But, if I use vim-plug, this does not work in a tex-file …
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How can I stop a system ftplugin file from overriding the keybindings from a plugin I manage via vim-plug?
I am using the merlin plugin for Ocaml and right now I set the runtimepath by hand, as per their installation instructions:
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugins')
"other plugins go here...
call plug#end(...
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What's the correct way to install YouComplete using vim-plug in vim/nvim?
The only documentation for installing YCM seems to be for Vundle and I'm fairly new to vim-plug and plugins in general so I'm not sure how well it translates to vim-plug.
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How to load plugins from my vimrc and from another file?
I have my dotfiles synchronized on github which is a current practice.
As I use several machines I want to be able to have some part of my configuration not synched on my github repo. To do so I ...
