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vim-addon-manager - command line manager of Vim add-ons

vim-addons [OPTION ...] [COMMAND [ADDON ...]]

Manage Vim addons installed system-wide, enabling on a per-user basis their installation, removal, ...

vim-addons is capable of managing all Vim addons registered in the system-wide registry of Vim addons (see vim-registry(5)). Each system-wide addon can be, with respect to a user Vim configuration, in one of the following states:


installed
all of the files composing the addon are installed (i.e. symlinked) to their respective places under the target directory. The addon is fully functional for the current user

removed
the files composing the addon are not installed under the target directory. The addon might still be working for the current user if it is installed system-wide by the local administrator

disabled
the files composing the addon are not installed under the target directory, but the addon is installed system-wide. However, the addon has been disabled for the current user explicitly via some configuration line in plugin/vim-addons.vim under the target directory. The addon is not working for the current user

broken
only some of the files composing the addon are installed under the target directory. The addon is probably not working for the current user

unavailable
some (or all) of the files composing the addon are missing from the source directory

A number of commands can be given to vim-addons to inspect or alter the status of the addons: list, status, install, remove, disable, amend, files, show.

A description of the semantics of each command is reported below.


list
list, one per line, the names of the addons available in the system (i.e. of all the addons mentioned in the registry, not necessarily of all enabled addons)

status
show, one per line, the status of the addons available in the system. If one or more addon arguments are specified only show the status of those addons. This is the default command if nothing is specified.

install
install one or more addons under the target directory. Requires at least one addon argument

remove
remove one or more addons from the target directory. Requires at least one addon argument

disable
disable one or more addons to be used by the current user. Usually used for addons which are system-wide enabled by the local administrator but that the current user does not want to be used. Using this command will automatically change the content of plugin/vim-addons.vim under the target directory, probably adding ":let" commands which will inhibit the given addon from being used. Requires at least one addon argument

enable
undo the effects of a previous disable command. Requires at least one addon argument

files
list, one per line, the files composing the specified addons. Files are listed relative to components of the Vim runtimepath (see 'runtimepath' in the Vim help). Requires at least one addon argument

show
displays detailed information about the specified addons

All commands accept the following options:


-h, --help
show this usage message and exit

-q, --query
be quiet and make the output more parseable (for "status")

-r, --registry-dir
set the registry directory (default: /usr/share/vim/registry)

-s, --source-dir
set the addons source directory (default: /usr/share/vim/addons)

-t, --target-dir
set the addons target directory (default: $HOME/.vim)

-v, --verbose
increase verbosity level

-z, --silent
silent mode: suppress most of the output

-y, --system-dir
set the system-wide target directory (default: /var/lib/vim/addons)

-w, --system-wide
set the addons target directory to the system-wide target directory, possibly overriding the -t option

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>

vim(1), vim-registry(5)

Copyright (C) 2007 Stefano Zacchiroli Copyright (C) 2009 James Vega

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

February 2019