This documents how I switched to vim’s new native package management.

Based on this post, I decided to switch from pathogen to using native package management.

My .vim directory tree looked like this:

.vim
├── after
│   └── syntax
├── colors
├── indent
├── bundle
│   ├── auto-pairs
│   ├── syntastic
│   ├── tabular
│   ├── ultisnips
│   ├── vim-abolish
│   ├── vim-airline
│   ├── vim-colors-solarized
│   ├── vim-commentary
│   ├── vim-dirvish
│   ├── vim-fugitive
│   ├── vim-indent-guides
│   ├── vim-speeddating
│   ├── vim-surround
│   └── vmath.vim
├── spell
├── syntax
└── usnippets

Under .vim, created the directory tree for the packages.

> cd ~/.vim
> mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/bundle/{opt,start}

Note that name “bundle” is arbitrary. Since I don’t have that many plugins and I want them all to be started, I’ll put them in a single directory tree.

Next is moving the plugins, and removing the autoload link for pathogen.

> cd bundle
> mv * ../pack/bundle/start/
> cd ..
> rmdir bundle
> rm autoload

The directory structure now looks like this:

.vim
├── after
│   └── syntax
├── colors
├── indent
├── pack
│   └── bundle
│       ├── opt
│       └── start
│           ├── auto-pairs
│           ├── syntastic
│           ├── tabular
│           ├── ultisnips
│           ├── vim-abolish
│           ├── vim-airline
│           ├── vim-colors-solarized
│           ├── vim-commentary
│           ├── vim-dirvish
│           ├── vim-fugitive
│           ├── vim-indent-guides
│           ├── vim-speeddating
│           ├── vim-surround
│           └── vmath.vim
├── spell
├── syntax
└── usnippets

The last thing to do was to edit my .vimrc and remove the lines related to pathogen.

diff --git a/shared/vimrc b/shared/vimrc
index b4a29d2..1fd75dc 100644
--- a/shared/vimrc
+++ b/shared/vimrc
@@ -3,11 +3,7 @@
"
" (On ms-windows use U:\_vimrc)
" Settings for vim, both on the console and under X11.
-" Last modified: 2018-12-08T10:46:30+0100
-
-" This _must_ be the first call: enable the pathogen plugin manager.
-execute pathogen#infect()
-call pathogen#helptags()
+" Last modified: 2019-07-19T22:33:06+0200

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