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What's the correct way to install YouComplete using vim-plug in vim/nvim?
neovim version 0.1 has breaking changes. It uses directory ~/.config/nvim
(On Mac OS X. Linux or Windows may use slightly different paths.)
If you want your neovim configuration independent of vim ...
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How to install fzf.vim with Vundle?
You've installed the fzf.vim wrapper plugin, but you haven't installed the base fzf plugin, which provides the underlying functionality, including the autoload functions that the error messages are ...
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Unable to conditionally test for presence of a plugin command & invoke it
The problem is, your vimrc file is executed before any plugins are loaded. You can check the order of what source files are loaded by issueing the :scriptnames command.
The usual way to fix this ...
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Why does `vim-plug` add the .vim file to .vim/autoload and not .vim/plugin?
Choosing between plugin/ and autoload/ is a matter of how a plugin designer intends the plugin to be used. vim-plug is intended to be placed in autoload/ because it is initialized through functions ...
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How can I list the plugins currently *active* when using VIM-Plug?
You can get all plugs from g:plugs_order list or g:plugs dict.
g:plugs's value also contain useful config infomation about the plug. Like dir where the plug is installed.
So, you can use:
if has_key(...
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What does an `autocmd User` do?
In my understanding, that example creates a User autocommand named YouCompleteMe which will be fired by vim-plug itself, in order to load the plugin on demand. If I'm not mistaken, here's the place ...
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Call plugin-defined function in .vimrc
All directories in your Vim runtimepath can have a directory called after which can contain directories like plugin and ftplugin but get sourced after the regular ol' plugin and ftplugin directories ...
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Can I get vim-plug to skip installing a plugin, based on some Vimscript condition?
From the FAQ (prettier formatting there):
Conditional activation
Use plain "if" statement to conditionally activate plugins:
if has('mac')
Plug 'junegunn/vim-xmark'
endif
The caveat ...
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Detecting whether colorscheme is available
You could search the colorscheme file via the runtime path:
let colorscheme="desert"
if findfile("colors/" .colorscheme .".vim", &rtp) != ""
execute "colorscheme " . colorscheme
endif
...
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Order in runtimepath of Vim packages or similar plug-in managers
As I don't know where to find the "written" rules, I digged into the source code instead. Also note that there are both Vim and Neovim, but it looks that they still share almost the same code in this ...
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Can you use plugins inside of your vimrc?
These lines define special remappings, so I think it makes sense that they are called on startup time and not via an autocmd.
Note that there's a specific autocmd event which is essentially for "...
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How to install plugins into 2 different folders in ~/.vim directory
So your question has already been asked in vim-plug's issue tracker, see #905.
@raindev said this (I changed the link to the code to not use master in case the code changes in the future):
I don't ...
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VimPlug, Vim won't load plugins: E117: Unknown function : plug#begin;
Looks like you created the autoload directory (or ran the wget command to install vim-plug) under sudo.
Running it under sudo will be bad because it will create files and directories that only root ...
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What's the correct way to install YouComplete using vim-plug in vim/nvim?
It's installed in the .vim/ dir, because of
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
try:
call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/plugged')
Instead, as answered above
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Can I get vim-plug to skip installing a plugin, based on some Vimscript condition?
As noted in the comments, you can use Vimscript within the vim-plug block, so I ended up checking for particular commands to control installation of plugins. For example, I rarely have cmake installed,...
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Neovim: plugins installed but not working
My guess is that you haven't activated the plug-ins. In the rainbow case you should add
let g:rainbow_active = 1
to your init file (Neovim's one is located in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim). In case of ...
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What's the correct way to install YouComplete using vim-plug in vim/nvim?
I managed to install it.
What I did was install python for neovim using
pip install neovim
The next thing I did was
:PlugInstall YouCompleteMe
from within neovim and it started installing as it ...
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How to load plugins from my vimrc and from another file?
(I haven't tested this)
You could use another local file, that contains exclusively Plug ... commands. The main vimrc would load this, inside the plug#begin - plug#end section. Something like:
let $...
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Dracula theme not recognized in init.vim
A brief word on how vim-plug works...
The main part of a plugin config is a path on GitHub. In your case dracula/vim refers to https://github.com/dracula/vim. What vim-plug needs to do, then, is ...
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Sourcing (a very tiny) vimrc changes iskeyword
The effect you're seeing is due to the set nocompatible command resetting many other options, 'iskeyword' included.
From :help 'nocompatible':
This is a special kind of option, because when it's set ...
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How can I stop a system ftplugin file from overriding the keybindings from a plugin I manage via vim-plug?
Look at the top of $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/ocaml.vim -- you'll see some lines that say:
if exists("b:did_ftplugin")
finish
endif
So, put in your personal
$HOME/.vim/ftplugin/ocaml.vim
the line
...
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VimPlug unknown function plug#begin in NeoVim
For whatever reason it doesn't seem to see VimPlug with the first symbolic link I had in my post. This is the only plugin I couldn't get to work in neovim with it.
So instead of making a symbolic ...
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Why won't vim-plug install my plugins? [typo]
@P1h3r1e3d13 Please try the following configuration
For .vim.plug:
" =============================================================================
" Plugin Manager Setup
" ===========================...
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What are suggested ways to modify a plugin that was installed by vim-plug?
If you installed the plugin with vim-plug, then all the files from the plugin will be located at ~/.vim/plugged/<NAME>. You can just modify these files, and test the changes (re-source the ...
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How do I set a final size to a split in vim
First we need to resize a split window vertically :h :vertical-resize tells us that from the command line mode we can use
:vertical resize 50
Or we could also use :50wincmd | but I find that less ...
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Nvim +UpdateRemotePlugin +qall gives me error: Abort trap 6
I solved the problem by running :PlugUpgrade; now my plugins that I use work. It bugged me mainly because fireNvim stopped working in the web browser. The ruby thing still persists but it is probably ...
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vim-plug: install plugins on startup not working properly on Ubuntu
Checking the output of filter helped diagnose the problem, my vimrc also contained the following line:
" If installed using Homebrew
Plug '/usr/local/opt/fzf'
which referred to a program (fzf) that ...
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Call plugin-defined function in .vimrc
If you look at :h starting, you'll see that plugin files are sourced after .vimrc is entirely processed.
Functions defined in autoload plugin files could be used directly as long as the 'runtimepath' ...
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Plugin management on Windows?
I cleaned out the installation and pulled the zip of vim-plug. Extracted the files into the autoload folder in vim82. Before I used the powershell solution.
After that I made a custom plugin folder ...
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Same plugins for every .vimrc file (vim-plug)
Set nocompatible
When you use a separate vimrc through the -u command-line flag, the nocompatible option will not be automatically set, as it is when using the normal user vimrc file.
See :help ...
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