Using Tim Pope's pathogen to manage vim plugins

Using Tim Pope's pathogen to manage vim plugins is essential.

Tim hosts the project on Git.

Type this ...

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle; \
curl -Sso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim \
    https://raw.github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/master/autoload/pathogen.vim

... to install pathogen.

That's all there is to it.