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

Note: Active developement on dein.vim has stopped. The only future changes will be bug fixes.

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Dein.vim

Features

Fast - Faster than NeoBundle.
Simple - Function API and familiar patterns, without commands or dependency hell.
Async - Clean asynchronous installation supported.
Extendable - Supports plugins from local or remote sources, and also Non-Github plugins.
Consistent - Go-like directory structure (eg. github.com/{author}/{repository})
Practical - Automatically merge plugins directories to avoid long runtimepath

Getting started

Prerequisites

Vim (v8.2 or higher) or NeoVim (v0.8.0 or higher)
Git should be installed (v2.4.11 or higher)

Basic installation

You can install dein.vim by your vimrc/init.vim.

let $CACHE = expand('~/.cache')
if !($CACHE->isdirectory())
  call mkdir($CACHE, 'p')
endif
if &runtimepath !~# '/dein.vim'
  let s:dir = 'dein.vim'->fnamemodify(':p')
  if !(s:dir->isdirectory())
    let s:dir = $CACHE .. '/dein/repos/github.com/Shougo/dein.vim'
    if !(s:dir->isdirectory())
      execute '!git clone https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim' s:dir
    endif
  endif
  execute 'set runtimepath^='
        \ .. s:dir->fnamemodify(':p')->substitute('[/\\]$', '', '')
endif

Command line installation

Please use dein-installer.vim.

Config example

Show a UNIX installation example using "~/.cache/dein" as the base path location.

" Ward off unexpected things that your distro might have made, as
" well as sanely reset options when re-sourcing .vimrc
set nocompatible
" Set dein base path (required)
let s:dein_base = '~/.cache/dein/'
" Set dein source path (required)
let s:dein_src = '~/.cache/dein/repos/github.com/Shougo/dein.vim'
" Set dein runtime path (required)
execute 'set runtimepath+=' .. s:dein_src
" Call dein initialization (required)
call dein#begin(s:dein_base)
call dein#add(s:dein_src)
" Your plugins go here:
"call dein#add('Shougo/neosnippet.vim')
"call dein#add('Shougo/neosnippet-snippets')
" Finish dein initialization (required)
call dein#end()
" Attempt to determine the type of a file based on its name and possibly its
" contents. Use this to allow intelligent auto-indenting for each filetype,
" and for plugins that are filetype specific.
filetype indent plugin on
" Enable syntax highlighting
if has('syntax')
  syntax on
endif
" Uncomment if you want to install not-installed plugins on startup.
"if dein#check_install()
" call dein#install()
"endif

Q&A

Feedback

Tasks

This is where Dein future plans or TODOS are listed:

Other types support (zip, svn, hg, ...)
Metadata repository support
Require neovim 0.10+ or Vim 9.0+(to use interpolated-string)

License

Licensed under the MIT license.