dein.vim

Please read help for details.

Dein.vim is a dark powered Vim/Neovim plugin manager.

• Requirements
• Quick start
• Features
• Future works (TODO)
  • Options

Requirements

• Vim 8.2 or above or NeoVim(0.5.0+).
• "xcopy" command in $PATH or Python3 interface (Windows)
• "git" command in $PATH (if you want to install github or vim.org plugins)

Note: If you use below Vim 8.2 or neovim 0.5, please use dein.vim ver.2.2 instead.

If you need vim-plug like install UI, you can use dein-ui.vim. https://github.com/wsdjeg/dein-ui.vim

Quick start

Note: You must define the installation directory before to use dein. The directory that you will want to use depends on your usage.

For example, ~/.vim/bundles or ~/.cache/dein or ~/.local/share/dein. dein.vim does not define a default installation directory. You must not set the installation directory as ~/.vim/plugin or ~/.config/nvim/plugin.

1. Run below script.

For Unix/Linux or Mac OS X

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Shougo/dein.vim/master/bin/installer.sh > installer.sh
# For example, we just use `~/.cache/dein` as installation directory
sh ./installer.sh ~/.cache/dein

For Windows(PowerShell)

Invoke-WebRequest https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Shougo/dein.vim/master/bin/installer.ps1 -OutFile installer.ps1
# Allow to run third-party script
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
# For example, we just use `~/.cache/dein` as installation directory
./installer.ps1 ~/.cache/dein

2. Edit your .vimrc like in "Examples" section.

3. Open vim and install dein

:call dein#install()

Examples

if &compatible
  set nocompatible " Be iMproved
endif

" Required:
" Add the dein installation directory into runtimepath
set runtimepath+={path to dein.vim directory}

" Required:
call dein#begin({path to plugin base path directory})

" Let dein manage dein
call dein#add({path to dein.vim directory})
if !has('nvim')
  call dein#add('roxma/nvim-yarp')
  call dein#add('roxma/vim-hug-neovim-rpc')
endif

" Add or remove your plugins here like this:
"call dein#add('Shougo/neosnippet.vim')
"call dein#add('Shougo/neosnippet-snippets')

" Required:
call dein#end()

" Required:
filetype plugin indent on
syntax enable

" If you want to install not installed plugins on startup.
"if dein#check_install()
" call dein#install()
"endif

Features

• Faster than NeoBundle

• Simple

• No commands, Functions only to simplify the implementation

• Easy to test and maintain

• No Vundle/NeoBundle compatibility

• neovim/Vim8 asynchronous API installation support

• Local plugin support

• Non github plugins support

• Go like clone directory name ex:"github.com/{user}/{repository}"

• Merge the plugins directories automatically to avoid long 'runtimepath'

Future works (TODO)

• Other types support (zip, svn, hg, ...)

• Metadata repository support

Options

Please read :help dein-options