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ap / vim-buftabline

Forget Vim tabs – now you can have buffer tabs
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=5057
MIT License
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Add section on installing with Vundle #30

Closed jpepin closed 7 years ago

jpepin commented 7 years ago

Just a small addition to the README for those of us who sometimes forget how to install with Vundle!

ap commented 7 years ago

Hmm. First of all – I’m glad you enjoy the plugin, and thank you for the patch.

The bad news is: I don’t wish to take it… because there is more than just one popular plugin manager. And I don’t personally use any of them, because I don’t like any of them much.

There isn’t anything special or unusual about Buftabline when installing it with Vundle, so it seems to me that if you forget how to install it, you can just trivially follow the Vundle docs. So it feels to me that if I take your patch, I would mainly be endorsing Vundle toward Vim users who aren’t using Vundle yet. And – sorry – that’s not something I want to do.

(Particularly because the plugin manager I personally dislike the least is probably Pathogen… or maybe just plain Unbundle. That’s just me.)

And there are also too many plugin managers to be “fair and balanced” by listing instructions for a bunch of them. Over on vim.org, I resolved this by just writing that “cloning from GitHub using a plugin manager is recommended; otherwise download and unzip in your .vim directory”, i.e. just staying out of it. But… on GitHub itself, that’s kinda redundant.

I appreciate the compliment your patch implies, and I’m sorry to be a party pooper.

jpepin commented 7 years ago

No worries -- thanks for the response!