Vundle 0.9 got awesome installer

Vundle, the plugin manager for Vim, just got major usability improvements.

Prior to 0.9

Before 0.9, Vundle used echoing to display progress. Echoing is poorly usable:

no way to see updates clearly
hard to track errors
too verbose
differs for GUI/CLI versions

New UI

Vundle 0.9 uses Vim’s buffer to display data. For example installation progress (of :BundleInstall command) looks:

New version uses Vim’s signs(:h signs) to mark results:

. - entry is up to date
+ - entry updated (or installed for the first time)
! - error(s) occured
- - entry removed
> - currently active entry (along with highlighted cursor line)

So from the image above it’s quite easy to see that there are:

an error for ingretu
updates for molokai, surround.vim and vim-mac-classic-theme
no updates for Vundle, vim-colors-solarized, repeat.vim and file-line
and Align is being processed.

and the ones below Align are yet to be preocessed.

New UI and commands

All commands :BundleInstall, :BundleClean, :BundleSearch, :BundleList (see help :h vundle) use new UI in Vundle 0.9. For instance :BundleClean shows the list of bundles to be removed Clening up

Notice deleted bundles marked with - .

Btw, :BundleList is an addition in Vundle 0.9 and it displays a list of currently configured bundles; mostly for convenience.

Hotkeys

New UI lets apply commands to bundles selectively by just pressing appropriate key over highlighted bundle. For instance, pressing:

i/I - installs/updates bundle
D - deletes bundle (be careful not to delete your local modifications)
l - opens log up. Helpful when tracking down errors.

What’s next, before 1.0

There are probably 2 items to work on before Vundle 1.0:

merge v branch to enable locking to a certain revision.
rename stuff (there’s a discussion started by @tpope; naming is hard)

How to update to 0.9

run :BundleInstall! and restart Vim. Run :BundleInstall! again to see new UI in action.

How to install Vundle

follow Quick Start

Thanks

Vundle got small but active community, I’d like to thank those who are actively involved in making Vundle better:

Special thanks go to Scott Bronson for running awesome vim-scripts.org as well as Github for making this possible.

And thanks for trying Vundle!