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Re:Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim by johnchristopher on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:18AM (#19529830)
No vundle for this one.

Out of curiosity I checked out if Vundle would give me YouCompleteMe but... vundle installation of YouCompleteMe just failed with `The ycmd server SHUT DOWN (restart with ':YcmRestartServer').YCM core library not detected; you need to compile YCM before using it. Follow the instructions in the documentation.`.

I love Vim but I have stopped trying to build a cathedral for it.

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Re:Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim by pw6hv on Sunday March 31, 2019 @04:12AM (#19534461)
Excuse me but the error you are getting makes it clear that you have to compile YCM before using it.
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Re:Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim by csomar on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:59AM (#19530055)
I thought vundle can install any plugin if it is hosted on Github?
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Re:Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim by johnchristopher on Saturday March 30, 2019 @12:22PM (#19530212)
Vundle is really neat and so is vim. But some plugins requires external binaries or services to function and that's when a vim packager stops being helpful and you have to take extra steps. Sometimes it's just an apt-get install something or curling a bin to ~/.bin but sometimes it needs more tweaking and fiddling. In my opinion that makes your vim installation more fragile and less portable.

Maybe we'll soon run vim in docker.

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Re:Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim by enitihas on Saturday March 30, 2019 @12:15PM (#19530159)
Vundle does install YCM, but you need to execute some more steps (compile the ycmd server), which vundle doesn't do, and YCM doesn't work without the daemon compiled.
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