Plugins with Vim-Plug

Installing Neovim

• On Mac

  brew install neovim

• Ubuntu

  sudo apt install neovim

• Arch

  sudo pacman -S neovim

Create config

Make directory for your Neovim config

mkdir ~/.config/nvim

Create an init.vim file

touch ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

Install vim-plug

curl -fLo ~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

You should now have plug.vim in your autoload directory so it will load of on start

Add a new file for plugins

We will manage our plugins in a separate file for the sake of my own sanity

mkdir ~/.config/nvim/vim-plug touch ~/.config/nvim/vim-plug/plugins.vim

Let's add some plugins

Add the following to ~/.config/nvim/vim-plug/plugins.vim

" auto-install vim-plug if empty(glob('~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim')) silent !curl -fLo ~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim "autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall "autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall | source $MYVIMRC endif call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/autoload/plugged') " Better Syntax Support Plug 'sheerun/vim-polyglot' " File Explorer Plug 'scrooloose/NERDTree' " Auto pairs for '(' '[' '{' Plug 'jiangmiao/auto-pairs' call plug#end()

Source your plugins

Add the following line to init.vim

source $HOME/.config/nvim/vim-plug/plugins.vim

Vim-plug commands

Open nvim

nvim

Check the status of your plugins

:PlugStatus

Install all of your plugins

:PlugInstall

To update your plugins

:PlugUpdate

After the update you can press d to see the differences or run

:PlugDiff

To remove plugins that are no longer defined in the plugins.vim file

:PlugClean

Finally if you want to upgrade vim-plug itself run the following

:PlugUpgrade

Where did I learn all this?

Check out vim-plug on github