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From: Lifepillar <github@lifepillar.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 21:04:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Enable lazy loading of plugins.
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Pathogen has a g:pathogen_blacklist variable that may be used to specify
a list of plugins that should not be loaded at startup (btw, it also
supports an undocumented $VIMBLACKLIST variable to temporarily disable
plugins). Currently, I use that list to disable YouCompleteMe, which
significantly increases the startup time, and which I need only when
using some programming languages (e.g., Python).

Enabling plugins at runtime is “super-tricky” in general:

    https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/issues/78

(YCM being a good example, since it requires to call a function to
enable it), but I don’t need a completely general approach in my
personal vimrc, so s:loadPlugin() should be good enough.
---
 vimrc | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/vimrc b/vimrc
index 6c2ff6b..38085df 100644
--- a/vimrc
+++ b/vimrc
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
   filetype plugin on " Enable loading the plugin files for specific file types.
   filetype indent on " Load indent files for specific file types.
   runtime bundle/pathogen/autoload/pathogen.vim " Load Pathogen.
+  let g:pathogen_blacklist = ['youcompleteme']
   execute pathogen#infect()
   set sessionoptions-=options " See FAQ at https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen.
   set autoread " Re-read file if it is changed by an external program.
@@ -67,6 +68,22 @@
     echohl NONE
   endf
 
+  " Enable a blacklisted plugin.
+  fun! s:loadPlugin(plugin_name)
+    " Remove the plugin from Pathogen's blacklist
+    call filter(g:pathogen_blacklist, "v:val !=? '" . a:plugin_name ."'")
+    " Update runtimepath
+    call pathogen#surround($HOME . "/.vim/bundle/" . tolower(a:plugin_name))
+    " Load the plugin
+    runtime plugin/**/*.vim
+    " Plugin-specific activation
+    if tolower(a:plugin_name) == 'youcompleteme'
+      call youcompleteme#Enable()
+    endif
+  endf
+
+  command! -nargs=1 LoadPlugin call <sid>loadPlugin(<q-args>)
+
   " Set the tab width in the current buffer (see also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Indenting_source_code).
   fun! s:setLocalTabWidth(w)
     let l:twd = a:w > 0 ? a:w : 1 " Disallow non-positive width