dfm
dotfile manager with 0 dependencies, minimal configuration, and automatic cleanup (by CGamesPlay)
vim-zen
Barebones Vim Plugin Manager (by danishprakash)
| dfm | vim-zen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 68 | 63 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.8 | 10.0 | |
| 9 months ago | about 5 years ago | |
| Go | Vim Script | |
| BSD Zero Clause License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dfm
Posts with mentions or reviews of dfm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-28.
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GitHub Does Dotfiles
A few years ago I spent some time developing my own solution to this, which I published on GitHub. I drew inspiration from the best dotfiles managers at the time, but I found deficiencies in all of them which is why I made my own. Basically: no configuration file, uses symlinks and not copies or templates, and can clean up files after you remove them. The result is dfm [0]. I talk more about the differences from other high-quality projects in the README. If you like DFM, I’d appreciate a star on GitHub so that I can hit 100 to qualify to be listed on the dotfiles.github.io list :)
[0] https://github.com/cgamesplay/dfm
vim-zen
Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-zen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-28.
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GitHub Does Dotfiles
My dotvim repo [1] contains a statically archived version of all plugins, as to being able to work in case things upstream get unstable or aren't integrated yet with my config.
I'm using a copy of zen.vim [2] which is quite nice because it's basically a git clone which is integrated with vim's native plugin api.
I've also written some cleanup scripts, because people never learn it's bad to upload their readme gifs into the git repos ...
[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/dotvim
[2] https://github.com/danishprakash/vim-zen
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dfm and vim-zen you can also consider the following projects:
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
dotfilers
dotfiles - dotfiles symbolic links management CLI
SpaceVim - A community-driven modular vim/neovim distribution - The ultimate vimrc
dotfiles