fastest way to make vim use new plugin in ~/.vim/bundles

Question

I'm using pathogen with vim.

When I add a new plugin to the ~/.vim/bundle directory what's the fastest way to make my existing MacVim window start using it? Do I have to close it and open a new one or is there a quick command I can run?

I would like an answer that wasn't "use something different." — zhon, Aug 16 '13 at 13:14

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 24 '11 at 12:05

You can use vim-addon-manager instead of pathogen. It uses bundle-like directory too, but when you call

ActivateAddons snipMate

if snipmate was not installed, VAM will install it and then source so that you don’t need to restart. You will have to add some call to vam#ActivateAddons() with 'snipMate' in arguments to the vimrc though.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '12 at 05:48

If you don't mind trying an alternative to Pathogen, check out Unbundle which lets you call :Unbundle manually to "rescan" your ~/.vim/bundle directory without closing Vim. It also supports filetype specific bundles, which can be manually rescanned in a similar fashion.

fastest way to make vim use new plugin in ~/.vim/bundles

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