Vundle.vim: Add the ability to load plugins only for specific filetypes

[Dbz]

Hello,

This is a feature suggestion from the vim-plug plugin manager.

Allow on-demand loading (lazy loading) of plugins

This can vastly increase env load times for people with lots of plugins.

This is done in vim-plug like this:

" Loaded when clojure file is opened
Plug 'tpope/vim-fireplace', { 'for': 'clojure' }

This syntax transfer over well to Vundle.

" Loaded when clojure file is opened
Plugin 'tpope/vim-fireplace', { 'for': 'clojure' }

[albfan]

Since plugins have autoload, and that can be related with autocmd, how this wlll speed up things?

[Dbz]

So my understanding is that plugins need to have that built in, so if they don't then this will speed things up. Another point is that a plugin may load for all file types when you only need it for a single one, and loading on the other file types will slow things down. Is that correct?

[Tardis07]

This is really an important feature. There're so many plugins installed in my computer, but I only want the plugins related to python load when I'm editing python file and js, php, etc. Now I can only load all the plugins no matter what kind of file I'm editing. The result is that the startup time of vim is extremely long.

[Dbz]

I recommend switching to vim-plug until this feature is implemented. I have had no issues with it so far, and the API is very similar.

[cxwx]

I agree with @Tardis07

[mgarort]

Is there a solution to this? I also think it would be great to have this feature.