Another Vim Addon Manager

another-vim-addon-manager by Evsyukov Denis uses Ruby and Rake as a way to install Vim scripts. It uses a file called plugins.yaml to define the required repository URLs:

---
- https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen
- https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
- https://github.com/vim-scripts/L9
- https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim

By default, a YAML file is created that includes Pathogen -- this is the default way plugins are managed. In that sense, this addon manager is a wrapper around Pathogen.

layoutManager

layoutManager by Alexandre Viau allows tabs, templates, and windows to be named and manipulated in a similar way to panels in a GUI IDE. Text can be sent to specific named windows -- one window could contain compiler output, another could display the code, while a further window displays a text-based menu of build operations.

The author has included an example layout file in the project's documentation that opens various tabs and windows, then writes text to them.