Provide method to explicitly remove Bundle from list

[jamestomasino]

Adding a Bundle is as easy as listing it, but removing them is much more difficult. You have the clean method which does a fine job of cleaning up unused bundles, but I'd like to have a method for explicitly removing a Bundle from the list.

Example

Lets say I have a .vimrc.bundles file with the following:

Bundle 'sjl/gundo.vim'
Bundle 'hail2u/vim-css3-syntax'
Bundle 'AfterColors.vim'

Now, that's great in most of my environments, but on this one particular system, I don't want to have gundo installed. I don't want to modify my .vimrc.bundles file, which is being kept up to date via verson control. I want to override the list with .vimrc.bundles.local instead.

I'm looking for some way to signify, "pretend the Bundle 'sjl/gundo.vim' line didn't happen".

Perhaps:

Bundle! 'sjl/gundo.vim'

or:

BundleRemove 'sjl/gundo.vim'

[jdevera]

You can remove the two directories Bundle puts in &runtimetipath from same. For example:

set rtp-=/home/jamestomasino/.vim/bundle/gundo.vim
set rtp-=/home/jamestomasino/.vim/bundle/gundo.vim/after

You can write a function to get those paths from the Bundle name and create your own command to do this. I'm suggesting this alternative approach because I'm not sure that such a change will make it in.

Any thoughts?

[weynhamz]

This is more like to be a problem about how to organize your vimrc configurantion, maybe add a check to see if a .vimrc.bundles.local file is already exists. If so, load it instead.

[weynhamz]

Many plugins depend on loaded_* variable to determine if the plugin should be loaded, maybe you could set let loaded_gundo = 1 (I guess, read the doc or source for real variable) to stop gundo from being loaded in your local vimrc file without altering Vundle.

[mbixby]

+1

[MarcWeber]

How to solve this issue? Add a let g:use_these_plugins_on_this_setup = 1 and depending on that setting use Bundle that plugin or not. https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-MarcWeber/blob/master/autoload/vim_addon_MarcWeber.vim#L4 shows how this can be done (this is for VAM, but the same could be done for vundle). Depending on features different sets of plugins will be activated. Also have a look at #364 which tells about lazy loading

[jdevera]

Closing this, as it can be easily done with just some vimrc organisation, and some alternative solutions have been provided.