vundle VS vim-plug

I'm confused. What install guide are you talking about to be specific (as in, please actually send a link)? The official repository is at https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim and it doesn't mention Python at all. From what I understand Vundle is not written in Python and should not have a dependency to it. If in doubt, consult official documentation rather than third-party tutorials and guides which could be wrong and/or including extra steps that are not necessary.

Vundle https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim

For example, a link to Git for Windows on Vundle's wiki was replaced with a link to malware:

https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim/wiki/Vundle-for-Windows/_compare/3aeb22ac39229af4312f2be1052ead184dd5b54d...aa3d293dd18ae1cb4f049c43b73b951651515863

In fact, all five recent edits, made by three different accounts, were malicious:

https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim/wiki/Vundle-for-Windows/_history

I recommend restricting editing in your GitHub wikis to collaborators only.

## Vundle Install Script function install-vundle() { git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim; sudo gem install vundle-cli; if ! grep -Fxq 'set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim' ~/.vimrc then echo "\nset nocompatible\nfiletype off\nset rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim\ncall vundle#begin()\n\nPlugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'\n\ncall vundle#end()\nfiletype plugin indent on" >> ~/.vimrc; fi }

A typo. I meant vundle. VimBundle

vim-plug

Did you really install VimTeX? Did you run :PlugInstall? Ensure you installed and set up vim-plug correctly (https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug). If VimTeX is installed, it should be installed to '~/.vim/plugged', thus you can open a terminal, then cd ~/.vim/plugged/vimtex and you should find the files there.

If you're determined to use vim for some reason, I'd suggest checking out vim-plug: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug. Quite useful for installing and maintaining all of the plugins that you're going to need to get vim to provide even a subset of the features offered by modern editors.

I encourage you to add plugins to your vim (tip: use vim-plug). Use vimawesome.com for inspiration.

Personally, I like https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

But the plugin manager https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug can also install from offline sources, without accessing Github:

To get started, simply install the plugin using your favorite plugin manager, such as vim-plug or packer.nvim. You can find detailed installation instructions in the README.

Not sure if Vundle did anything particularly fancy, but I'm using vim-plug [0] and have no complaints. It stays out of my way to the point that I had to look at my .vimrc just now to make sure that's what I was using.

[0] https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

I chose to move on to vim-plug and can report it was a simple switch from Vundle.