Autoupdate VIM Plugins?

Question

Is it possible to update vim plugins automatically?

Answer 1

This vim plugin seems to do what you are after, though it hasn't been updated in a while. Never used it, but the author has written a "few" vim plugins in the past.

Answer 2

To provide an up to date answer to this old question, Vundle works really great. It simulates the ruby bundle gem, you simply configure your Bundles in .vimrc and then run :BundleInstall! inside vim.

Answer 3

vim-addon-manager has the function :UpdateAddons [{name} ...] which when called with no arguments updates all installed addons.

Answer 4

My operating systems (Archlinux) has a bunch of packages containing vim plugins. Look into you OS for similar packages.

Answer 5

If the plugin versioned in git, for example, you can pathogen and put the plugin in another dir. Then to update is only a command.

Answer 6

I prefer a bash script. Then you can have it set as a cronjob, and you don't depend on other scripts supporting the ability to update.