vim-zen VS dfm

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

vim-zen

Barebones Vim Plugin Manager (by danishprakash)

dfm

dotfile manager with 0 dependencies, minimal configuration, and automatic cleanup (by CGamesPlay)
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vim-zen dfm
1 1
63 68
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10.0 2.8
about 5 years ago 10 months ago
Vim Script Go
MIT License BSD Zero Clause License
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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

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.
  • GitHub Does Dotfiles
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2022
    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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vim-zen and dfm you can also consider the following projects:

dotfilers

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

dotfiles - dotfiles symbolic links management CLI

SpaceVim - A community-driven modular vim/neovim distribution - The ultimate vimrc

dotfiles