Setup VIM plugin

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Time to revisit my VIM plugin system after VIM is upgraded to version 8.0

Previously I was using Vundle but it is bit complicate to set up quickly. This time I am using vim-plug.

Install Vim 8.0 on a clean window 10 system

By default the installer creates

  1. C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim80 (folder)
  2. C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim_vimrc (file)
  3. C:\Users\lufeng\vimfiles (folder. Sometimes the vimfiles folder is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim)

Install vim-plug

Assume you have curl installed. If not, download the exe file and add the path to environment PATH.

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curl -fLo %USERPROFILE%/vimfiles/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

This will download and save the file plug.vim in C:\Users\lufeng\vimfiles\autoload\

Setup your plugins

Edit the C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim_vimrc, to insert below at the top of the file

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call plug#begin('$HOME/vimfiles/plugged')
" Make sure you use single quotes
" Shorthand notation; fetches https://github.com/junegunn/vim-easy-align
" Plug 'junegunn/vim-easy-align'

Plug 'flazz/vim-colorschemes'
Plug 'PProvost/vim-ps1'
Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
Plug 'bling/vim-airline'
Plug 'kien/ctrlp.vim'
Plug 'majutsushi/tagbar'

" Initialize plugin system
call plug#end()

The first line specified where the plugin will be stored

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call plug#begin('$HOME/vimfiles/plugged')

Therefore all plugins are stored in C:\Users\lufeng\vimfiles\plugged

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