dotfiles VS vim-zen

Compare dotfiles vs vim-zen and see what are their differences.

dotfiles

dotfiles symbolic links management CLI (by rhysd)

vim-zen

Barebones Vim Plugin Manager (by danishprakash)
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5.5 10.0
about 1 month ago about 5 years ago
Go Vim Script
MIT License MIT License
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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.
  • Rotz: Cross platform dotfile manager written in Rust
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024
    I've been looking for a cross-platform dotfile management tool and I had some hope for this but it seems a little too complex, and I don't like that I would end up with lots of yaml/toml/json files. I use Mac, Windows, and Linux and I want to have a single configuration for all. I've been using https://github.com/rhysd/dotfiles and it is the only thing that really works well for me.
  • GitHub Does Dotfiles
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2022
    I've used my custom bash script for managing dotfiles for ages and also have tried all other tools, but just couldn't get it right because I work on multiple OS. Then I found https://github.com/rhysd/dotfiles. It is the only tool I know of that can support multiple OS (Linux, mac, windows). I have to work with multiple OS and having a single dotfiles repo has been great, especially its ability to set different config on different OS, well as a unified Unix-like config setting.

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.
  • GitHub Does Dotfiles
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2022
    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 dotfiles and vim-zen you can also consider the following projects:

dotfiles

dotfilers

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

dfm - dotfile manager with 0 dependencies, minimal configuration, and automatic cleanup