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it is possible to maintain an out of tree list of neovim plugins with this method

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Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
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./pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py --proc 1
```
## Important repositories {#important-repositories}
## How to maintain an out-of-tree overlay of vim plugins ?
- [vim-pi](https://bitbucket.org/vimcommunity/vim-pi) is a plugin repository
from VAM plugin manager meant to be used by others as well used by
You can use the updater script to generate basic packages out of a custom vim
plugin list:
```
pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py -i vim-plugin-names -o generated.nix --no-commit
```
with the contents of "vim-plugin-names" being for example:
```
repo,branch,alias
pwntester/octo.nvim,,
```
You can then reference the generated vim plugins via:
```nix
myVimPlugins = pkgs.vimPlugins.extend (
(pkgs.callPackage generated.nix {})
);
```
- [vim2nix](https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-vim2nix) which generates the
.nix code