I change vim plugin manager form pathogen to vim-plug, because I want some plugin manager here that is still under active development. Also I want do get ride of the git submodules for all vim plugins.
I search a bit around in the web and take the descision to go with vim-plug.
What I like on vim-plug is that I can simple install and update the plugins direct in vim. The configuration is also straigth forward and esay to understand.
Install
To install vim-plug you only need to download the plug.vim file to your ~/.vim/autoload directory.
Usage
The usage is also really simple and the syntax is at the same time simple and powerful.
To configure vim-plug you need to make a small section in your vimrc. There a small example out of my vimrc. I add some useful comments to explain everything.
" start plugin section
" the path in the brackes tells vim-plug
" where to install the plugins
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
" first installs the fzf tool
Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'do': './install --bin' }
" after that install also the fzf vim plugin
Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim'
" load nerdtree only if needed
Plug 'preservim/nerdtree' { 'on': 'NERDTreeToggle' }
" also install needed go binaries
Plug 'fatih/vim-go', { 'do': ':GoUpdateBinaries' }
" End of the plugins section
" Here the loading of the plugins starts.
call plug#end()
I would recommend you to exclude the ~/.vim/plugged from your dotfiles and manage the plugins only with vim-plug.
You can find my whole configuration in my dotfiles repository on github.