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How to use Tim Pope’s Pathogen.

I’ll assume you are on Linux or Mac OSX. For Windows, replace ~/.vim/ with $HOME\vimfiles\ and forward slashes with backward slashes.

The idea.

Vim plugins can be single scripts or collections of specialized scripts that you are supposed to put in “standard” locations under your ~/.vim/ directory. Syntax scripts go into ~/.vim/syntax/, plugin scripts go into ~/.vim/plugin, documentation goes into ~/.vim/doc/ and so on. That design can lead to a messy config where it quickly becomes hard to manage your plugins.

This is not the place to explain the technicalities behind Pathogen but the basic concept is quite straightforward: each plugin lives in its own directory under ~/.vim/bundle/, where each directory simulates the standard structure of your ~/.vim/ directory.

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try {
  Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "Bootstrapping machine ${remoteHost}"
  Write-Host "Setting up package management and installing required packages for Dev."

  # Install Choco (if not already installed) + required packages
  if ( (Get-Command "choco" -errorAction SilentlyContinue) ) {
      Write-Host "Chocolatey already installed. Skipping."
  } else {
      Write-Host "Installing Chocolatey"
      $wc=new-object net.webclient; $wp=[system.net.WebProxy]::GetDefaultProxy(); $wp.UseDefaultCredentials=$true; $wc.Proxy=$wp; iex ($wc.DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))