How To Install vim-scripts on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-scripts on Ubuntu.
What is vim-scripts
vim-scripts is:
Vim is a very capable editor. Its scripting support allows the use of plugins that enhance the functionality of it. Many people have written scripts, they are scattered all over the web; however, there’s a central resource on https://www.vim.org/ to start with.
This is a collection of some of those scripts on a purely subjective and biased basis. Users can thus have some nice scripts without having to go searching. The scripts can be installed globally or on a per user basis. Here is a summary of the included scripts:
- AlignPlugin - Provides commands to help produce aligned text, eqns, declarations
- alternateFile - Alternate Files quickly (.c –> .h etc)
- bufexplorer - Easily switch between buffers without knowing their numbers
- calendar - Calendar
- closetag - Easily close SGML-like tags
- color_sampler_pack - over 100 different color schemes
- cvsmenu - CVS menu supporting most CVS commands
- debPlugin - for browsing Debian packages
- detectindent - Automatically determine indent settings
- doxygen-toolkit - Simplify Doxygen documentation
- dtd2vim - create XML data file for XML omni-completion from DTDs
- EnhancedCommentify - Quickly comment lines in a program
- gnupg - Transparent editing of gpg encrypted files
- info - GNU info documentation browser
- lbdbq - Easily query lbdb from Vim
- minibufexpl - Elegant buffer explorer - takes very little screen space
- nerd-commenter - easy code commenting
- omnicppcomplete - C/C++ omni-completion with ctags
- po - Easier editing of PO multi-lingual translation files
- project - organize and navigate file projects
- python-indent - alternative Python indent script
- secure-modelines - secure, user-configurable modeline support
- snippetsEmu - emulate TextMate’s snippet expansion
- supertab - use the tab key for all insert-mode completion
- surround - easily delete, change, and add ‘surround’ of text
- taglist - Source code browser (supports dozens of languages)
- tetris - Tetris for Vim
- utl - Univeral Text Linking - Execute URLs in plain text
- VCSCommand - Commands for cvs, svn, git, hg, bzr, svk
- vimplate - template system based on template-toolkit
- VimSokoban - Sokoban Game for Vim
- whatdomain - Find out the meaning of any Top Level Domain
- winmanager - A windows style IDE for Vim 6.0
- xmledit - Helper for editing XML, HTML, and SGML documents
All of the addons are installed as “optional” Vim packages. They can be
enabled by adding “packadd!
There are three methods to install vim-scripts on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vim-scripts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-scripts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vim-scripts
Install vim-scripts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-scripts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vim-scripts
Install vim-scripts Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-scripts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vim-scripts
How To Uninstall vim-scripts on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the vim-scripts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vim-scripts
Uninstall vim-scripts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vim-scripts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-scripts
Remove vim-scripts Configurations and Data
To remove vim-scripts configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vim-scripts
Remove vim-scripts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vim-scripts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vim-scripts
Dependencies
vim-scripts have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-scripts package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.