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An extensible layer for plugin managers in pure lua

plug.nvim

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An extensible layer for plugin management in pure lua.

Thus this plugin is not a plugin manager, so a plugin manager backend will either need to be installed manually or configured to be automatically installed.

Shortcuts

  • Getting Started
  • Breaking Changes
  • Configurations and Upgrade
  • Backends
  • Extensions

Features

This plugin will behave with the exact same set of its backend plugin manager. Only with the ability to extends its behaviour.

So with some built-in configurations, you could achieve...

  • Plugin manager automatic installation
  • Automatic installation of missing plugins
  • Per-plugin configuration closure
  • Plugin and variable requirements
  • Plugin loading priority and sequencing
  • Defers setup
  • Conditionally install a plugin
  • And more...

Contributes

During the development, you can use the following command to automatically setup a working configurations to test the plugin...

make test-<backend to test>

# or to preview the test setup

make drytest-<backend to test>

To test automatic installation, use

make test-auto-<backend to test>

# or to preview the test setup

make drytest-auto-<backend to test>

To preview the code generation, use

make preview

To manually generate the output code, use

make compile

License

Released under the MIT License